Word: pollyannaism
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...that the heiress and her lover (whom the slavey also loves) can find happiness. In the Dickensian Sparrows, she played a clever and persistent teen-ager who frees the inmates of an orphanage from sadistic bondage. It was a strong role for a forceful woman. Even in pictures like Pollyanna or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pickford showed wit, endearing mischievousness and sheer spunk...
DIVORCED. Hayley Mills, 31, star of kiddie cinema (Pollyanna, The Parent Trap) who rounded nicely into adult roles (The Family Way, Twisted Nerve); and Roy Boulting, 63, British producerdirector; after six years of marriage, one son; in London. The suit alleging Mills' adultery with Actor Leigh Lawson was uncontested...
...thing to challenge this belief and quite another to write a novel showing it to be false. Authors who try generally find themselves accused of going soft, of frivolously aping the Pollyanna fadeouts of popular schlock. To counter such charges, Fowles fills Daniel Martin with plenty of reasons for contemporary despair: war, poverty, tyrannies of the body and mind, mankind's apparent inability to do anything about problems except augment them. His hero tries "to discover what had gone wrong, not only with Daniel Martin, but his generation, age, century; the unique selfishness of it, the futility, the ubiquitous...
...Richard Thomas, and Wife Alma, a former grade-school teacher. "I was expecting a girl," said Dad, adding that he would probably keep trying. At the same time, in London, Jason Lawson took his first bow as well. He is the son of Actor Leigh Lawson and former Disney Pollyanna Hayley Mills, who is still awaiting her divorce from British Film Producer Roy Boulting. "I feel married both emotionally and physically to Leigh," said Hayley, "and that is what is most important...
...once the star of kiddie cinema, thanks to Walt Disney confections like Pollyanna and The Parent Trap. Then in 1965, at the age of 19, Hayley Mills shed her moppet image by moving in with British Producer Roy Boulting, a thrice-married father of seven who was 33 years her senior. Five years later, the couple were married, and Mills bore a son. Now a ripe old 30, Hayley has come a long way indeed from her Disney days. Her latest credit: she has been named the "other woman" in a divorce suit filed by the wife of British Actor...