|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BiographyShe is the younger daughter of the actor Sir John Mills and the playwright Mary Hayley Bell. She is also the younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, who appears on the U.S. soap opera Passions and played the Nanny in Nanny and the Professor.
Disney subsequently cast Mills as twins Sharon and Susan who reunite their divorced parents in The Parent Trap. In the film, Mills sings the hit song Let's Get Together. Mills made four additional films for Disney in a four-year span, including In Search of the Castaways, Summer Magic, The Moon-Spinners, and That Darn Cat!. During her six-year run at Disney, Mills was arguably the most popular child actress of the era. Critics noted that America's favorite child star was, in fact, quite British and very lady-like. In 1998, she was awarded the prestigious Disney Legend award by The Walt Disney Company. In addition to her Disney movies, Mills took the lead in several other films, notably Whistle Down the Wind (based on the book of the same title written by her mother Mary Hayley Bell), The Truth About Spring (with her real father, John Mills, cast as her father and James MacArthur as the love interest), and The Chalk Garden. Image:Hayley60.jpg Hayley Mills as a child star. After her contract with Disney expired in 1966, Mills starred in the innocuous The Trouble with Angels opposite Rosalind Russell. Looking to break from her clean-cut, girl-next-door image, Mills went home to England to star in The Family Way. Though meant to be a light British comedy about a couple having difficulty consummating their marriage, a brief shot of Mills' bare bottom generated a certain amount of controversy upon first release, possibly because of her previous "family movie" background. Though harmless by today's standards, The Family Way hurt Mills' film career.
Starting in 2007, Hayley will be starring in the ITV 1 Sunday-night drama Wild at Heart. Personal LifeIt was while filming The Family Way that 20-year-old Mills met 53-year old director Roy Boulting, 33 years her senior. The two married in 1971,They owned a flat in London's Kensington. They then went on to purchase Cobstone Windmill in Ibstone, Buckinghamshire. The couple then divorced in 1977. They had one child, Crispian Mills, who became a vocalist and lead guitarist for the band Kula Shaker. Mills' second son, Jason Lawson, is the product of a 1970s relationship with British actor Leigh Lawson. TriviaShe was originally cast as Lolita Haze in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film version of Lolita. Walt Disney memoed to Kubrick that he felt the role was not up to his wholesome standard, and the part eventually went to Sue Lyon. [dubious — see talk page] She composed the preface to the book The Hare Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking, ISBN 0-9026-7707-1, dated May 1984 from Hampton, England. Filmography
|
Sites |
Searched sites for "Hayley Mills" |
|
No sites found. |
Sorry, no matching site records were found. |
Want your site listed here?
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Submit
your site |
|
Relevant quality search results and fast easy navigation throughout the
different sections of the site, make Americola.com |