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...FAMILY WAY. John Mills is superb as a loutmouthed father whose newlywed son (Hywel Bennett) and daughter-in-law (Hayley Mills) are unable to consummate their marriage...
...Hayley came of age as a performer this month with the release of the poignant British comedy The Family Way (TIME, July 14). Playing a young newlywed, she gives an affecting portrayal through a difficult and delicate metamorphosis of moods. She is vulnerable as the courted virgin, bemused and forgiving at her raucous wedding reception, exquisitely graceful in a kitchen bathtub scene, and ineffably tender when her husband proves temporarily impotent. What is most telling about her talent is that she has survived many cloying movie roles without picking up Hollywood tricks or mannerisms; the keynote of her performance...
Marquee Names. Looking back now, Hayley feels she was too dependent too long on her family. Until she was 19, her parents picked all her film roles. That seems understandable enough, since her father is Actor John Mills (Tunes of Glory), one of Britain's peerless pros, and her mother is Playwright Mary Hayley Bell. When the family was not on location, Hayley grew up in Berkeley Square, or on a Kent farm, and was educated at Elmhurst Ballet School. She and her brother Jonathan and sister Juliet were warned that the theater was "a jungle." But just...
...love on a set struck me like people falling in love with their psychiatrist or dentist or something. It sounds so foolish." Sticks-in-the-mud have made much of the fact that Boulting is 54, is in the process of divorcing his third wife, and that he and Hayley travel together. "Goodness," says Hayley, "some people are oldfashioned, aren't they...
Meanwhile, the two are preparing to collaborate again on their next film, A Nice Girl Like Me. "It's quite a marvelous story," Boulting says, "about a girl who gets involved in various love affairs. In a way, she's like Hayley -brave, adventurous, free, although brought up in a conventional...