Hayley Mills

At 78 years old, Hayley Mills has this physical status:

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress.

The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film Tiger Bay (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's Pollyanna (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961.

During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1961).

Her performance in Whistle Down the Wind (a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. During the late 1960s Mills began performing in theatrical plays, and played in more mature roles.

The age of contracts with studios soon passed.

For her success with Disney she received the Disney Legend Award.

Although she has not maintained the box office success or the Hollywood A-list she experienced as a child actress, she has continued to make films and TV appearances, including a starring role in the UK television mini-series The Flame Trees of Thika in 1981, the title role in Disney's television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1988, and as Caroline, a main character in Wild at Heart (2007–2012) on ITV in the UK.

Personal life

In 1966, while filming The Family Way, 20-year-old Mills met 53-year-old director Roy Boulting. The two were married in 1971 and owned a flat in London's Chelsea and Cobstone Windmill in Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, which was later sold. Their son, Crispian Mills, is the lead singer and guitarist for the raga rock band Kula Shaker. The couple divorced in 1977.

Mills had a second son, Jason Lawson, born in July 1976, during a relationship with actor Leigh Lawson. She and Lawson split up in the early 1980s.

In the 1980s, following her breakup with Lawson, Mills developed an interest in a number of Eastern religions. She wrote the preface to the book, The Hare Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking, published in 1984. In a 1997 article in People magazine, she stated that "she is 'not a part of Hare Krishna', though she delved into Hinduism and her own Christianity for guidance."

In 1988, Mills co-edited, with then-partner Marcus Maclaine (né Newby; brother of actor Maxwell Caulfield, husband of Hayley's sister, Juliet), the book My God, which consisted of brief letters from celebrities on their beliefs, or lack thereof, regarding God and the afterlife.

Mills's boyfriend since 1997 is actor/writer Firdous Bamji, who is 20 years her junior.

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Early life and career

Mills was born in Marylebone, London, on April 18th, 1946. She was 12 years old when J. Lee Thompson, who was initially looking for a boy to play the lead role in Tiger Bay, starring her father, veteran British actor Sir John Mills, was discovered. At the British box office, the film was extremely popular.

Bill Anderson, one of Walt Disney's designers, saw Tiger Bay and suggested that Mills be given the lead role in Pollyanna (1960). The role of the orphaned "glad child" who moves in with her aunt catapulted her to fame in the United States and awarded her a coveted Academy Award (the youngest person to receive the Juvenile Award). Annette Funicello accepted the award on her behalf because she couldn't be there to receive it. In The Parent Trap (1961), Disney portrayed Mills as twins Sharon and Susan, who reunite their divorced parents. She sings "Let's Get Together" as a duet with herself in the film. The film was a hit around the world, debuting at number 8 on a top ten list.

Mills was invited to film in Britain for Bryan Forbes' Whistle Down the Wind (1961), based on a book by her mother Mary Hayley Bell about several children who suspect an escaped convict is Jesus. She was voted Britain's biggest celebrity at 1961 by the British box office, and it was a hit at the British box office. Mills was offered the role in Lolita by Stanley Kubrick, but her father turned it down. In 1962, she said, "I wish I had done it." "It was a smashing film." Mills returned to Disney for an adventure film In Search of the Castaways (1962), based on Jules Verne's book In Search of the Castaways (1962). It was another big success, and she was named the country's fifth best celebrity for the next two years.

Disney confirmed plans to film an adaptation of Dodie Smith's book I Capture the Castle in 1963, with Mills playing Cassandra. When the novelist and the selected screenwriter Sally Benson did not get along, Disney ended up canceling the venture, while still holding film rights to the book; Mills grew too old for the role before the project could be revived. Her fourth film for Disney did less well than her previous Disney films, but it was nevertheless profitable: Summer Magic (1963), a musical version of Mother Carey's Chickens. Ross Hunter recruited her for a British-American film The Chalk Garden (1964), portraying a girl who screameth governes Deborah Kerr, the monarch of the United States. She was in a film about jewel robbers called The Moon-Spinners (1964), and Peter McEnery was her first on screen kiss back at Disney. Mills saw a change in speed with Sky West and Crooked (1965), which were written by her mother and directed by her father, but not commercially profitable, but it wasn't profitable. In comparison, the comedy That Darn Cat, her last film with Disney, is a parody. At the box office, the business, which was also 1965, did very well.

Mills was unquestionably the most well-known child actress of the era during her six-year tenure at Disney. In fact, critics observed that America's most popular child actor was actually quite British and ladylike. "Let's Get Together" was a huge hit on the charts (and it remained No. 1)) and it was a huge success. No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. 17 people in the United Kingdom and No. 11 in the United States and none in the United Kingdom. (Billboard No. 1 in Mexico) Let's Get Together with Hayley Mills, Disney's Buena Vista record album, also included her only other hit song, "Johnny Jingo." 1972 (22nd Century) In 1962, British voters voted her the most popular film actress in the country.

She reveals highlights from her early career, as well as challenges with self-confidence and an eating disorder in Forever Young: A Memoir, among other things. "I think because being under contract with Walt Disney, I think it prevented me from getting more diverse careers, but it also changed how she felt about myself." "I wasn't positive what I was capable of." In the end, she had turned down a new Disney deal because she felt her character castings had resulted in her "repeating herself" at the studio. She also outlined how, at age 21, she lost the majority of her Disney empire to a 90 percent tax rate set by the Inland Revenue in England. Mills' attempt to recover her funds was eventually rejected, with Mills admitting that at the time, she was worried about heading the direction of Judy Garland and becoming a "studio asset."

Post-Disney film career

Mills co-starring Disney regular James MacArthur as her love interest in another film with her father, The Truth About Spring (1965). It was moderately popular. However, The Trouble with Angels (1966), a film starring Rosalind Russell, was a huge success; she starred as a prankish Catholic boarding school girl with "scathingly brilliant" plans, opposite screen veteran Rosalind Russell and directed by another Hollywood veteran, Ida Lupino. She later became the Little Mermaid for The Daydreamer (1966).

Mills appeared alongside her father and Hywel Bennett in director Roy Boulting's critically acclaimed film The Family Way (1966), a comedy about a couple having a difficult time consuming their marriage, with a score by Paul McCartney and arrangements by Beatles producer George Martin. She began a romantic relationship with Boulting, and they eventually married in 1971. She then appeared in Singapore as the protagonist of Pretty Polly (1967), the opposite of Indian film actress Shashi Kapoor.

Mills and her Family Way co-star Hywel Bennett appeared in another film for Boulting, the notorious horror thriller Twisted Nerve in 1968. With Oliver Reed and made her West End debut in The Wild Duck in 1970, she made a parody, Taking a Girl Like You (1970). Ms. Forbush and the Penguins (1971), she appeared in Boulting again, with the original female lead replacing the original male lead.

Mills performed in Endless Night with British expatriate, Perpetu, and George Sanders. It's based on Agatha Christie's book Endless Night. What Changed Charley Farthing? She made two films for Sidney Hayers. (1974) and Death Strangers (1975). She dropped out of film after co-written by Boulting in 1975.

Stage career

Mills appeared in a 1969 West End revival of Peter Pan. Judith Ivey, an American actress, performed in Sir No.l Coward's Suite in Two Keys, where she received a Theatre World Award in 2000. Anna Leonowens appeared in The King and I in 1991. Mills was invited by the No.l Coward Society to lay flowers in front of Coward's statue at New York's Gershwin Theatre in December 2007, commemorating Coward's 108th birthday.

Mills appeared in Rodgers and Hammerstein's national tour in 1997. Mills appeared in "A Little Night Music" in Seattle, Washington, in 2001. It was a co-production between A Contemporary Theatre and the Fifth Avenue Theatre in the city. Ursula Widdington appeared in the stage version of Ladies in Lavender at the Royal & Derngate Theatre in 2012 before embarking on a national tour of the United Kingdom. In 2015, Juliet Mills and Juliet's husband Maxwell Caulfield performed in Australia with sister Juliet Mills and Juliet Caulfield. James Kirkwood. Mills appeared in Isobel Mahon's Party Face at City Center in 2018.

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