Hayley Mills
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.
Life
Hayley Mills is the daughter of actor Sir John Mills and the writer and former actress Mary Hayley Bell. Her older sister Juliet Mills is also an actress, her brother Jonathan Mills is a director.
The small Hayley grew up in her parents' house and was very bright. When she came to boarding school, but she was quite shy in the company of peers. She found solace in the theater productions of their school.
Hayley Mills was 12 when she was discovered by director J. Lee Thompson, who was really looking for a boy for the lead role in "Tiger Bay". But won the role after he had seen her in the house Mills, the daughter of his actors. The film took first place the German actor Horst Buchholz international breakthrough and secondly Hayley a Silver Bear, Special Prize for acting performance, at the Berlinale 1959.
Lillian Disney, wife of Walt Disney, was an acting of Hayley's performance over excited, and they received a five -year contract for Disney movies. The first of these was the classic "Everybody Loves Pollyanna ," the story of a young girl who moves in with his aunt. For this film, Hayley Mills in 1960 was awarded the last Juvenile Award, a special " Oscar" for outstanding child actor who was awarded a total of only twelve times, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress.
In " The Parent Trap announce " ( The Parent Trap, based on themes by Erich Kästner's " Lottie and Lisa " ), she played the dual role of twin couple who brings his parents together again after a long time. Other Disney films in which Hayley was involved, were among others " The Children of Captain Grant" ( In Search of the Castaways ), Summer Magic, and "all for naught " ( That Darn Cat ). In 1998, Mills of the group the coveted " Disney Legend ."
In addition to the Disney films, there were other main roles; highlight would be there " ... where the wind blows " ( Whistle Down the Wind, 1961, based on a novel of her mother ), in which she plays a 15- year-old, who holds a murderer for Jesus, and " The House in Chalk Garden " (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 his new Head of House.
1966 Mills made the film " Honey Moon '67 " (The Family Way ) headlines, partly because she had a nude scene in the strip, and on the other because she started an affair with her director. His name was Roy Boulting was 33 years older than her - and the two were married in 1971 when she was 25 and he 58 years old. On January 18, 1973 were the two son Crispian; In 1977 she got divorced. Crispian Mills later became a well-known singer and guitarist (see Kula Shaker ). Hayley Mills ' second son, Jason Lawson comes from the relationship with British actor Leigh Lawson in the 1970s.
Professionally, she stepped from the mid-1970s much on stage. Worth mentioning particularly her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in the British production of " Anna and the King " ( The King and I ). In the 1990s, she starred opposite Peter Duncan in Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent's musical The Card (based on a novel by Arnold Bennett ) in London's Regent 's Park Open Air Theatre on. In America, she made her New York stage debut in Sir Noel Coward's Suite in Two Keys (2000), in which she played on the side of the American actress Judith Ivey.
In addition, it has since been as likely to see on TV on the screen, so among other things, in Agatha Christie films and the title role of the U.S. mini TV series Good Morning, Miss Bliss ( short-lived predecessor of Saved by the Bell), as well as in subsequent films their 1961s success "The Parent Trap" for the Disney Channel.