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When 14-year-old Hayley Mills won a special Oscar for her 1960 performance in the title role in Pollyanna, Producer Walt Disney predicted that she would mature "into an actress more beautiful than Elizabeth Taylor and more talented than any star in motion pictures." He was not far wrong. Today, Hayley Mills lacks only Liz's animal splendors. At 21, she is prettier than her pictures, and a natural actress of growing authority and range...
...loutmouthed father (John Mills) fusses with a chamber pot next door, he finds himself unable to consummate the marriage. When their honeymoon plans fall through, the couple stay on in the house, and Bennett remains incapacitated. "One doesn't miss what one's never had," the bride (Hayley Mills) assures him. But a month later, she miserably confides her troubles to her mother-and overnight the truth is known all over their drab industrial town...
Playing her first grown-up role, Hayley Mills is outstanding in a cast of seasoned performers. Hayley's father-in-law on film is her real-life father, John Mills; beery-voiced and bleary-eyed, he once again demonstrates his ability to breathe life into any character he plays. This time he gives a brilliant full-length portrait of a proletarian father who tries to reach his children but who cannot touch them without giving hurt. At the end, when his son asks his advice for the first time, the old man breaks down and cries. The scene might...
...peccadilloes of a Catholic girlhood last for four long years, and only serve to misrepresent a good-hearted girl: at graduation time Hayley decides to enter the novitiate. Roz, a worldly comedienne, retains her dignity through several assaults of whimsy that would shake a saint. In one dreary episode, she is conned into buying scanty costumes for the school band. In another, she sends a shy little nun off to help a pack of screaming girls shop for their first brassières. Director Ida Lupino lets Angels swing lowest when she introduces a lay teacher, clad in passionate purple...
...class like the starting line-up at Pimlico. In Angels, based on Jane Trahey's Life with Mother Superior, Mother Superior Rosalind Russell does none of these things. She wisely leaves such nonsense to lesser members of the faculty, while she herself wages a war of nerves with Hayley Mills and June Harding, a pair of cigar-smoking students who seem determined to overthrow dear old St. Francis Academy by force and violence...