Hayley Mills

Hayley Mills with her husband Firdous Bamji , 1997

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivian Mills (born April 18, 1946 in London ) is a British actress and one of the most famous child actresses of the early 1960s.

origin

Hayley Mills is a daughter of actor Sir John Mills and writer and former actress Mary Hayley Bell . Her older sister Juliet is also an actress and her brother Jonathan is a director .

Life

Hayley Mills grew up in her parents' house and was very bright. When she went to boarding school , however, she became quite shy around her peers. She found solace in her school's theater productions.

With twelve Mills was by director J. Lee Thompson discovered that the main role in Tiger Bay was looking for a boy. But after he had seen it in the Mills house, the role was given to the daughter of one of his actors. The film earned Hayley a Silver Bear , Special Award for Acting Achievement, at the 1959 Berlinale .

Walt Disney's wife Lillian Disney was more than delighted with Hayley's acting performance, and so she was awarded a five-year contract for Disney films. The first of these was the classic Everyone Loves Pollyanna , the story of a young girl who moves in with her aunt. For this film, Hayley Mills received the last Juvenile Award in 1960 , a special Oscar for outstanding child actors, which was only awarded a total of twelve times, as well as the Golden Globe Award for best young actress .

In known The Parent Trap ( The Parent Trap , for motives of Erich Kastner's Lottie and Lisa ), she played the dual role of twin couple who matches his parents after a long time. Other Disney films that Hayley starred in included The Adventures of Captain Grant ( In Search of the Castaways ), Summer Magic and Anything for the Cat! ( That Darn Cat! ). In 1998, Mills received the coveted Disney Legend award from the company .

In addition to the Disney films, there were other leading roles; Of particular note are ... where the wind blows ( Whistle Down the Wind , 1961, based on a novel by her mother), in which she plays a 15-year-old who thinks Jesus is a murderer , and Das Haus im Kreidegarten ( The Chalk Garden , 1964 ). In it, she played a 16-year-old girl who lives in a fantasy world and tries to discover the secret of her new head of house.

In 1966, Mills made headlines with the film Honey Moon '67 ( The Family Way ), partly because she had a nude scene in the flick and partly because she started an affair with her director. His name was Roy Boulting and he was 33 years her senior. The two married in 1971 when she was 25 and he was 58 years old. On January 18, 1973, the two had a son Crispian ; In 1977 they got divorced. Crispian Mills later became a well-known singer and guitarist (see also Kula Shaker ). Hayley Mills' second son, Jason Lawson , was born in a relationship with British actor Leigh Lawson in the 1970s.

Professionally, she performed a lot on stage from the mid-1970s . Particularly noteworthy is her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in the musical The King and I , in 1991 in Australia and 1997 in the USA. In the 1990s she appeared alongside Peter Duncan in Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent's musical The Card (based on a novel by Arnold Bennett ) at London's Regent's Park Open Air Theater. In America she made her New York stage debut in Sir Noël Coward's Suite in Two Keys (2000), in which she played alongside the American actress Judith Ivey .

In addition, she has since been seen more on television than on the screen , including in Agatha Christie films and as the heroine of the US mini-television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss (short-lived predecessor of Saved by the Bell ), as well as in follow -up films her 1961 hit The Marriage of Her Parents announce for the Disney Channel .

Filmography

• 1959: Tiger Bay (Tiger Bay)
• 1960: Everyone loves Pollyanna (Pollyanna)
• 1961: The Spiral Staircase (TV movie)
• 1961: Announce the marriage of their parents (The Parent Trap)
• 1961: ... where the wind blows; alternatively: Whistle Down the Wind (TV )
• 1962: The Adventures of Captain Grant (In Search of the Castaways)
• 1963: Summer Magic
• 1964: The Truth About Spring (Pirates of Spring Cove)
• 1964: The Chalk Garden (The Chalk Garden)
• 1964: The Million Treasure (The Moon-Spinners)
• 1965: Everything for the cat (That Darn Cat!)
• 1965: The Trouble with Angels
• 1966: Sky West and Crooked
• 1966: The Daydreamer (cartoon, dubbing voice)
• 1966: Honigmond '67 (The Family Way)
• 1967: Dangerous Adventures ( Africa - Texas Style ! , cameo)
• 1967: Pretty Polly (A Matter of Innocence)
• 1968: Vicious Circle Y (Twisted Nerve)
• 1970: Take a Girl Like You
• 1971: Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (Cry of the Penguins)
• 1972: Made-to-Measure Murder ((Agatha Christie's) Endless Night)
• 1974: What Changed Charley Farthing? (The Bananas Boat)
• 1974: Deadly Strangers
• 1974: Only a Scream Away
• 1975: Diamond Hunter
• 1981: In the Land of the Fire Tree ( The Flame Trees of Thika , TV miniseries)
• 1984: Grimm's Fairy Tales and Storybook Series (TV series)
• 1986: Nikki and Mary, The Parent Trap II
• 1987: Good Morning, Miss Bliss ( Saved by the Bell: The Junior High Years , TV series)
• 1988: Appointment with Death (Appointment with Death)
• 1989: A twin rarely comes alone 1990 ( Parent Trap III , TV)
• 1989: Honeymoon in Hawaii ( Parent Trap IV: Hawaiian Honeymoon , TV)
• 1990: The Long Road to Happiness ( Back Home , TV)
• 1990: After Midnight (TV)
• 1994: The Magic Troll ( A Troll in Central Park , animated film, dubbing voice)
• 2004: 2BPerfectlyHonest
• 2005: knitting
• 2010: Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure
• 2011: Foster

Web links

• Hayley Mills in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Classic Movies (1939–1969): Hayley Mills (English)