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Pollyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie sticks to the original lachrymose plot like warm icing to a sugar bun. Intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

PoIIyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie sticks to the original lachrymose plot like warm icing to a sugar bun. Intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 16, 1960 | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...photographed the little horror in throbbing colors, bloated it with big names (Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou. Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead. Donald Crisp, Nancy Olson), and generally calculated its gasps and sniffles, homilies and heehaws with such shrewdness that Pollyanna emerges on the wide screen as the best live-actor movie Disney has ever made: a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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