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Polly (Hayley Mills) is a shy young girl on a world tour with her impossible aunt (Brenda de Banzie). In Singapore, the ladies are entertained by their Eurasian guide (Shashi Kapoor). Polly begins an affair with the seductive guide, and upon the death of her aunt she finally comes out of her shell to blossom into full womanhood. Noel Coward had received some of the worst reviews in his life when he published the uncharacteristically bitter Pretty Polly and Other Stories; the film version of Pretty Polly substitutes sentiment for cynicism, but isn't much of an improvement over the Coward original. The film is better known under its American title A Matter of Innocence. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Hayley Mills was one of the biggest child movie stars of the early 1960s, the Oscar-winning star of Pollyanna (1960) and a string of successful Disney movies including The Parent Trap (1961) and That Darn Cat (1965). Mills is the younger sister of actress Juliet Mills and the daughter of Oscar-winning actor John Mills (1970's Ryan's Daughter) and writer Mary Hayley Bell (Whistle Down the Wind, made into the 1961 movie co-starring Hayley). After years playing sweet innocents, Mills shattered that image by appearing in The Family Way (1967) and by marrying director Roy Boulting, more than thirty years her senior (they divorced in 1976). In the '70s her screen career nearly evaporated, in the '80s she appeared in three television sequels to The Parent Trap and in a the short-lived series Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987) and in the '90s she began focusing on a stage career, touring in The King and I.
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The middle child of actor John Mills and writer Mary Hayley Bell, blonde, blue-eyed Hayley Mills became the epitome of English wholesomeness in the early 1960s in a series of Disney films. She first came to attention with a highly-praised turn as a pre-teen murder witness in "Tiger Bay" (1959), opposite her father. Based on this strong debut, Walt Disney signed Mills to a five-year contract, putting her in a series of sweet, ingratiating innocents ranging from "Pollyanna" (1960), for which she earned a special juvenile Academy Award to a dual role of twins trying to reunite their divorced parents in "The Parent Trap" (1961). She ... co-starred as one of three children who discover an escaped convict and believe he is Jesus Christ in Bryan Forbes' "Whistle Down the Wind" (1961), adapted from a novel by her mother. After playing a perturbing student at a convent school who reforms in "The Trouble With Angels" (1966), directed by Ida Lupino, Mills shocked the Establishment and shed her pure image with a celebrated nude scene in "The Family Way" (also 1966). That she also married a man three-decades her senior, producer-director Roy Boulting, changed the direction of her career.
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In 1971, Hayley Mills was married to film director Roy Boulting. Many did not approve of this marriage because Roy Boulting was 33 years her senior. However, she seemed to be happy. She has one son from that marriage, Crispian (Dodge to his friends) Mills, who was born on January 18,1973, in Hammersmith, West London. Hayley and Roy separated in 1975 and were divorced in 1977. Hayley's second son, Jason ("Ace"), was a result of her relationship with actor Leigh Lawson in the mid 1970's.
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Academy Award winning actress, Hayley Mills will be sworn in as a lifetime member of The Girl Scouts of America on Saturday, June 4, 2005. The ceremony will take place in Joe Franklins Club inside Charlie Os Restaurant, 713 8th Avenue at 45th Street in Manhattan, NY. The time will be 4:30 pm. Joe Franklin is expected to be on hand for the festivities. Members of the Press are Invited to Attend.
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Though overlong even for a Hayley Mills vehicle, That Darn Cat is an expert blend of laughs and suspense. The eponymous feline is D.C., a Siamese belonging to sisters Hayley Mills and Dorothy Provine. One evening, D.C. comes flouncing home with a lady's wristwatch attached to her neck. The watch contains an unfinished plea for help scribbled on its back, written by Grayson Hall, a bank teller held captive in a neighboring house by robbers Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin. Mills and Provine contact the FBI, who send agent Dean Jones (who's allergic to cats) to investigate. In their efforts to locate and rescue Hall and capture the crooks, Jones and the two sisters embark upon a series of slapstick misadventures involving an unending stream of top character actors.
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