Twice Upon a Time (1953 film)

1953 film by Emeric Pressburger

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Twice Upon a Time

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Directed by| Emeric Pressburger
Written by| Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Orme
Based on| Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner
Produced by| Emeric Pressburger
Starring| Hugh Williams
Elizabeth Allan
Jack Hawkins
Cinematography| Christopher Challis
Edited by| Reginald Beck
Music by| Frederick Lewis

Production
company

London Films

Distributed by| British Lion Films

Release date

* 6 July 1953 (1953-07-06)

Running time

| 75 minutes
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English
Budget| £102,000[1]

Twice Upon a Time is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Emeric Pressburger and starring Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan, Yolande Larthe, and Charmian Larthe. It is based on the 1949 novel Lisa and Lottie by Erich Kästner.[2]

Lotte and Lisa had already been adapted into the films Two Times Lotte (1950) and Hibari no komoriuta (1951). Twice Upon a Time was the first English-language film adaptation; the story was later twice adapted as The Parent Trap (1961 and 1998) and has been remade a number of times in English and many other languages. It was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Arthur Lawson.

The film is the only solo directing credit for Pressburger, whose other directing credits are in association with Michael Powell.

## Plot

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Twin sisters are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are sent to the same summer camp, and they hatch a plan to reunite their parents.

## Cast

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* Hugh Williams as James Turner
* Elizabeth Allan as Carol-Anne Bailey
* Jack Hawkins as Dr. Mathews
* Yolande Larthe as Carol Turner
* Charmian Larthe as Anne Bailey
* Violette Elvin as Florence la Riche
* Isabel Dean as Miss Burke
* Michael Gough as Mr. Lloyd
* Walter Fitzgerald as Professor Reynolds
* Jeanne Stuart as Mrs. Jamieson
* Nora Gordon as Emma
* Martin Miller as Eipeldauer
* Lily Kann as Mrs. Eipeldauer
* Collin Wilcox as Ian
* Jack Lambert as Ernest
* Pat Baker as Sonia
* Isabel George as Molly
* Alanna Boyce as Susie
* Margaret McCourt as Wendy
* Myrette Morven as Miss Rupert
* Margaret Boyd as Mrs. Kinnaird
* Cicely Walper as Mrs. Maybridge
* Mollie Terraine as Miss Wellington
* Archie Duncan as Doorman

## References

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1. ^ Kevin Macdonald (1994). Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter. Faber and Faber. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-571-16853-8.
2. ^ Goble p.252

## Bibliography

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* Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

## External links

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* Twice Upon a Time at IMDb

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Erich Kästner's Lisa and Lottie

Films|

* Two Times Lotte
* Hibari no komoriuta
* Twice Upon a Time
* Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum
* Leta Manasulu
* Do Kaliyaan
* Sethubandhanam
* Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen
* It Takes Two
* Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi
* Two Times Lotte

Disney series|

* The Parent Trap (1961)
* The Parent Trap II
* Parent Trap III
* Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon
* The Parent Trap (1998)

Television series|

The Two Lottes

Plays|

* Identical (2022)

Music|

* "The Parent Trap" (1961 song)
* "For Now, For Always" (1961 song)
* "Let's Get Together" (1961 song)

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Powell and Pressburger

* Michael Powell
* Emeric Pressburger

* The Spy in Black
* Contraband
* 49th Parallel
* One of Our Aircraft is Missing
* The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
* The Volunteer
* A Canterbury Tale
* I Know Where I'm Going!
* A Matter of Life and Death
* Black Narcissus
* The Red Shoes
* The Small Back Room
* Gone to Earth
* The Elusive Pimpernel
* The Tales of Hoffmann
* Oh... Rosalinda!!
* The Battle of the River Plate
* Ill Met by Moonlight
* They're a Weird Mob
* The Boy Who Turned Yellow

Powell only (as director)

* Two Crowded Hours
* My Friend the King
* The Rasp
* Rynox
* The Star Reporter
* Hotel Splendide
* C.O.D.
* His Lordship
* Born Lucky
* The Fire Raisers
* Red Ensign
* Something Always Happens
* The Girl in the Crowd
* Lazybones
* The Love Test
* The Night of the Party
* The Phantom Light
* The Price of a Song
* Someday
* Her Last Affaire
* The Brown Wallet
* Crown v. Stevens
* The Man Behind the Mask
* The Edge of the World
* Smith
* The Lion Has Wings
* The Thief of Bagdad
* An Airman's Letter to His Mother
* The Sorcerer's Apprentice
* Luna de Miel
* Peeping Tom
* The Queen's Guards
* Herzog Blaubarts Burg
* Age of Consent

Pressburger only (as director)

* Twice Upon a Time

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Films by Alexander Korda

As director|

* Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914)
* The Duped Journalist (1914)
* Tutyu and Totyo (1914)
* Lyon Lea (1915)
* The Officer's Swordknot (1915)
* White Nights (1916)
* The Grandmother (1916)
* Tales of the Typewriter (1916)
* The Man with Two Hearts (1916)
* The One Million Pound Note (1916)
* Cyclamen (1916)
* Struggling Hearts (1916)
* The Laughing Saskia (1916)
* Miska the Magnate (1916)
* St. Peter's Umbrella (1917)
* The Stork Caliph (1917)
* Magic (1917)
* Harrison and Barrison (1917)
* Faun (1918)
* The Man with the Golden Touch (1918)
* Mary Ann (1918)
* Ave Caesar! (1919)
* White Rose (1919)
* Yamata (1919)
* Man of Gold (1919)
* Neither at Home or Abroad (1919)
* Number 111 (1919)
* The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
* Masters of the Sea (1922)
* A Vanished World (1922)
* Samson and Delilah (1922)
* The Unknown Tomorrow (1923)
* Everybody's Woman (1924)
* Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
* Dancing Mad (1925)
* Madame Wants No Children (1926)
* A Modern Dubarry (1927)
* The Stolen Bride (1927)
* The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
* Yellow Lily (1928)
* Night Watch (1928)
* Love and the Devil (1929)
* The Squall (1929)
* Her Private Life (1929)
* Lilies of the Field (1930)
* Women Everywhere (1930)
* The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
* The Men Around Lucy (1931)
* Rive gauche (1931)
* Marius (1931)
* Longing for the Sea (1931)
* The Golden Anchor (1932)
* Service for Ladies (1932)
* Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
* The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
* La dame de chez Maxim's (1933)
* The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
* The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
* Rembrandt (1936)
* That Hamilton Woman (1941)
* Perfect Strangers (1945)
* An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only|

* Men of Tomorrow (1932)
* That Night in London (1932)
* Women Who Play (1932)
* Strange Evidence (1933)
* Counsel's Opinion (1933)
* Cash (1933)
* Catherine the Great (1934)
* The Private Life of the Gannets (1934) (short)
* The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
* Things Are Looking Up (1935)
* Sanders of the River (1935)
* The Ghost Goes West (1935)
* Things to Come (1936)
* I Stand Condemned (1936)
* Men Are Not Gods (1936)
* Forget Me Not (1936)
* The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
* Fire Over England (1937)
* I, Claudius (1937) (unfinished)
* Dark Journey (1937)
* Elephant Boy (1937)
* Farewell Again (1937)
* Storm in a Teacup (1937)
* Knight Without Armour (1937)
* The Squeaker (1937)
* Paradise for Two (1937)
* The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
* South Riding (1938)
* The Challenge (1938)
* Prison Without Bars (1938)
* Q Planes (1939)
* The Four Feathers (1939)
* The Rebel Son (1939)
* The Spy in Black (1939)
* The Lion Has Wings (1939)
* Over the Moon (1939)
* 21 Days (1940)
* Conquest of the Air (1940)
* The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
* Old Bill and Son (1941)
* Lydia (1941)
* To Be or Not to Be (1942)
* Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)
* The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
* A Man About the House (1947)
* Mine Own Executioner (1947)
* Night Beat (1948)
* Anna Karenina (1948)
* The Winslow Boy (1948)
* The Fallen Idol (1948)
* Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
* That Dangerous Age (1949)
* The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
* Saints and Sinners (1949)
* The Third Man (1949)
* The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
* A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
* The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
* Storm Over the Nile (1955)
* Richard III (1955)
* Smiley (1956)

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