Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Sharon McKendrick: `Cos that`s how true love creates its beautiful agony. All splendid lovers had just dreadful times! Er, Pelias and Melisande, Daphnis and Chloë. History`s just jammed with stories of lovers parted by some silly thing! Miss Inch: Congratulations. In the history of this camp, that was the most infamous, the most disgusting, the most revolting display of hooliganism we have ever had.
Miss Grunecker: Rolling around like hooligans in front of our guests.
Miss Inch: And worst of all, two sisters who should be setting a good example.
Susan Evers: We`re not sisters!
Sharon McKendrick: I`ve never seen HER before in my life.
Miss Inch: They are! Aren`t they?
Miss Grunecker: No ma`am. Just look-alikes.
Miss Inch: An amazing resemblance.
Margaret `Maggie` McKendrick: Oh yes! Don`t say anything about that dear, sweet, precious Vicky! That plus-faced child bride and her electric hips!
Susan Evers: Do you want to know Father? And I`m just dying to know Mother. It might be so scary that we just might be able to pull it off.
Sharon McKendrick: Pull what off?
Susan Evers: Switch places!
Sharon McKendrick: Switch?
Susan Evers: We can do it. We`re twins, aren`t we? Oh, I`m just dying to know Mother! Look, now I`M getting goosebumps!
Sharon McKendrick: Me, too. You know something? There`s more to it than just switching places. I believe fate brought us together.
Susan Evers: How so?
Sharon McKendrick: If we switched, sooner or later, they`d have to unswitch us.
Susan Evers: Mother would have to bring me to California to unmix us.
Sharon McKendrick: And they`d have to meet again.
Susan Evers: Face-to-face. Are you thinking what I`m thinking?
Sharon McKendrick: Exactly.
Verbena `Ever`s Housekeeper`: You didn`t know what a good thing you had when you had it.
Mitch Evers: Huh?
Susan`s roommate at camp Inch: The nerve of her! Coming here with your face!
Susan`s other roommate: What are you gonna do about it?
Susan Evers: Do? What in heaven`s sake can I do, silly?
Susan`s other roommate: I`d bite off her nose. Then she wouldn`t look like you.
Miss Inch: [reading from index cards] Welcome to Camp Inch, new arrivals. I am your supreme commander here. My name is...
[turns to the next card and continues reading]
Miss Inch: Miss Inch.
[frowns, looks back at the previous card in confusion, then re-reads the new one]
Miss Inch: Oh, yes, Miss Inch.
Ursala, Camp Inch roomate: I know! We`ll wait until she comes over here and when she`s not looking we`ll dump ants down her dress!
Betty: Where are we gonna find ants at night stupid?
Ursala, Camp Inch roomate: Ooo, just thinking about it makes me so mad I could just spit!
Mitch Evers: Would you mind putting on something decent?
Margaret `Maggie` McKendrick: I`m dressed perfectly decent.
Mitch Evers: Yeah, running around in my bathrobe. The priest could come in here any minute, it looks like we just...
Margaret `Maggie` McKendrick: Like we what?
Mitch Evers: Just go upstairs and put on some clothes!
Margaret `Maggie` McKendrick: Don`t you take that tone with me Mitch. I lambed you once!
[she tries to make a childish fist but it gets wrapped under her robe sleeve, so she pulls the sleeve down]
Margaret `Maggie` McKendrick: Now stand back.
Mitch Evers: Oh Maggie, come on...
[he tries to grab her arm from behind but she elbows him instead and instinctively punches him in the eye]
Mitch Evers: Ow!
[covers his eye]
Mitch Evers: Why do you have to get so physical?
[mopes over to the couch and lies down]
Margaret `Maggie` McKendrick: Oh, stop being such a big baby. Let me take a look at it.
[tries to look at his eye but he childishly won`t let her]
Margaret `Maggie` McKendrick: You`re acting worst than the twins.
Sharon McKendrick: [looks at Susan putting up a picture on the wall] Who`s that?
Susan Evers: [turns to her surprised] Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson?
Sharon McKendrick: Oh, your boyfriend.
Susan Evers: [a choked laugh is forced out] I wish he was! You mean you`ve never heard of him? Where do ya come from? Outer space?
Charles McKendrick: [Susan starts sniffing the coat he is wearing] My dear, what are you doing?
Susan Evers: Making a memory.
Charles McKendrick: Making a memory?
Susan Evers: All my life, when I`m quite grown-up I will always remember my grandfather and how he smelled of
[smells his jacket again]
Susan Evers: tobacco and peppermint.
Charles McKendrick: Smelled of tobacco and peppermint.
[starts chuckling]
Charles McKendrick: Well, I`ll tell you what. I take the peppermint for my indigestion and as for the tobacco
[looks around]
Charles McKendrick: to make your grandmother mad.
Mitch Evers: Hey, Maggie, you look pretty good. What did you do to yourself?
Margaret `Maggie` McKendrick: *Do* to myself?
Verbena `Ever`s Housekeeper`: I`m not saying a word. Not one single word.
Mitch Evers: [after Vicky slaps one of the twins] Hey, wait a minute, there`s no call for that. They didn`t do anything to you!
Vicky Robinson: You`ll never know what they did to me, you big GOON! Now get me outta this stinkin` fresh air!
Charles McKendrick: Louise, for once I`m putting my foot down. Now let them alone!
Louise McKendrick: Charles, stop burbling.
Charles McKendrick: I haven`t burbled in years!
Sharon McKendrick: [while Mitch thinks she`s Susan] My nails, I bit them all because of you! And my hair! Look at my hair! I cut it off just for you! Of all the pigheaded fathers!
Sharon McKendrick: [after telling her he`s going to marry Vicky] Don`t you see, Dad, it`s all relative. Compared to her, you`re an old man.
Mitch Evers: I am not an old man!
Mitch Evers: [entering the dining room to see an empty table] Hey, uh, what happened to dinner?
Verbena `Ever`s Housekeeper`: Oh, dinner`s being served on the patio tonight.
Mitch Evers: Oh, whose idea is that?
Verbena `Ever`s Housekeeper`: It`s none of my nevermind. I don`t say a word.
Mitch Evers: [turning to leave; deadpan] I know, you never say a word to anyone.
Trivia
Hayley Mills` real life father John Mills played Mitch Evers` golf caddy. John & Hayley have also starred in other films together.
The screenplay originally called for only a few trick photography shots of Hayley Mills in scenes with herself; the bulk of the film was to be shot using a body double. When Walt Disney saw how seamless the processed shots were, he ordered the script reconfigured to include more of the special effect.
The title song was performed by Tommy Sands and Annette Funicello. They were on the lot shooting Babes in Toyland (1961).
For the scene where Maureen O`Hara and Charles Ruggles are speaking in the bedroom, Ruggles didn`t have any place to put the ashes of his cigarette so, on his own, he decided to put them in his hand.
Susan Henning took on the role as Hayley Mills` body double for several of the twin shots in the film. As part of her contract, she signed away her rights to be credited. At the wrap party, Walt Disney presented her with a small statue of Donald Duck, called The Duckster, in recognition of the "best unseen performance on film." Only 2 other Ducksters have ever been awarded. To her credit, Ms. Henning did later star with Elvis Presley.
The "isolation" cabin that Sharon and Susan stay in at camp is named "Serendipity".
This was Brian Keith`s first comedy participation.
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