In The Tender Trap Frank Sinatra plays a man of many women, a far cry from the characters he played in his earlier career such as Anchors Aweigh. Much like his recording persona, Frank Sinatra’s character here plays the role of a womanizing man unable to settle down and thus independently wealthy. This film seems to do a good job at embodying the playboy of the 1950s with the clash of his best friend (the married man) In an almost blunt fashion The Tender Trap can be seen as the taming of the playboy, showing that even such men as Sinatra’s character must eventually settle down and embody the married man persona. This can also be seen as city vs countryside wherein the city is viewed as the playboy’s playground and the countryside as the place in which men and women go to settle down. Unlike Frank Sinatra’s wartime characters his character in this film shares more of the sunny attitudes from his musical characters. He smokes rarely, he exhibits no agony of loss on the same level of his prior characters and in a way he is more or less smug. The Tender Trap, for us, is the beginning of the playboy years.
and now your moment of zen, Frank Sinatra getting dissed by Orson Welles!
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