Word: hayleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pollyanna. Showing an infallible instinct for what the public wants but would be better off without, Walt Disney has blended freshets of onion juice and a Niagara of drivel into a movie tearfully true to the Eleanor Porter novel. Hayley Mills is excellently horrid in the lead...
PoHyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original lachrymose plot like warm icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the sniffly...
Pollyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original tear-jerking plot like icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the bitter...
...director, David Swift, has made the most of a cast that includes some of the most skillful muggers now in the movies. But chief credit for the film's success belongs to 13-year-old Hayley Mills, the youngest member of what may at the moment be the most successful family in show business.* With her grace, intelligence and unstagy freshness, she has made the horrid little prig she plays seem almost as nice as the authoress intended...
...Hayley's father, John Mills, is a well-known British cinemactor (Great Expectations, Tiger Bay); her mother, Mary Hayley Bell, is a successful British playwright (Men in Shadow, Duct for Two Hands); her 18-year-old sister, Juliet, is now playing on Broadway in Five Finger Exercise...