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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Joanna Barnes

Joanna Barnes appears in The Parent Trap, the film adaptation of the book by Erich Kästner Lottie and Lisa, first published in 1949.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Parent Trap. Poster of the 1961 movie and cover of the 1949 book, Lottie and Lisa
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Lottie and Lisa
Erich Kästner, 1949
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The Parent Trap
David Swift, 1961

Identical twins Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers meet at Miss Inch’s Summer Camp for Girls, unaware that they are sisters. Their identical appearance initially creates rivalry, and they pull pranks on each other. After discovering that they both come from single-parent homes, they soon realize they are twin sisters and that their parents, divorced shortly after their birth, with each parent having custody of one of them.