Books
December, 1955
The Tender Trap, a celluloid version of the Broadway comedy by Playboy-regular Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith, is a clever confection about an unmarried theatrical agent (Frank Sinatra), his married crony (David Wayne), and the women in their respective lives. The script is adult (not above mentioning such things as paternity suits) and the direction, by Chuck Walters, has snap and savvy. Sinatra, who is described by one character as "attractive, in an off-beat, beat-up sort of way,"...