Hayley Mills began her acting career as a child and won a BAFTA award for her performance in the British crime drama Tiger Bay. Her seven-picture deal with Walt Disney made her an international star and included her dual role as the twins Sharon and Susan in The Parent Trap. She won a special Academy Award at the age of fourteen for Pollyanna. For her success with Disney, she received the Disney Legend Award.Hayley's role in Whistle Down the Wind, a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother Mary Hayley Bell, secured her a nomination for the BAFTA award for Best British Actress. She has continued to make films and TV drama, among them The Flame Trees of Thika, and featured as Miss Bliss in Saved by the Bell, and as Caroline in Wild at Heart on ITV. She lives in south-west London.
An affectionate but clear-eyed memoir of an unusual career that
began at the tender age of 12
*INDEPENDENT*
As charming on the page as she's ever been on the screen. Her
memoir touches on growing up in a family of performers,
thoughtfully considers life as a child star, and finds honest,
often very funny, ways to examine what it means to live in and
around the spotlight . . . Delightful
*Town & Country*
A greatly enjoyable and eye-opening memoir: a showbusiness
chronicle which proves equal parts celebration and cautionary tale
. . . Forever Young is an unexpected treat: a brave and revealing
memoir with nary a dull passage
*Wall Street Journal*
With a novelistic eye for detail and a disarming sense of humor,
Mills illuminates her extraordinary past while evoking the lost
empire of mid-20th-century Hollywood . . . The result is a luminous
work commensurate with the unforgettable movies that made Mills an
icon
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
A natural storyteller, as so many actors are, Mills takes us on
that wide-eyed 12-year-old's journey . . . If you loved those
Disney movies, or just want to get a sense of what life was like in
a Hollywood very different from how it is today, Forever Young is a
pleasure. One of its joys is watching Mills grow up on the page,
learning to love her craft
*Seattle Times*
Hayley's insights into Disney and the interaction between Disney
and Hayley and the Mills family are worth the price of admission .
. . You'll likely love reading this behind-the-scenes account of
what our Hayley was really up to during her formative years
*New York Journal of Books*
The iconic star of Pollyanna and The Parent Trap recalls her rise
to stardom, her experiences on set, and her friendship with Walt
Disney in this endearing memoir . . . A warm-hearted peek behind
the curtain at youthful fame and filmmaking in the 1960s
*Booklist*
Child star Mills's charming and eloquent walk down memory lane is a
fascinating study of moviemaking in 1960s Britain and the United
States . . . Movie buffs will be riveted by Mills's behind the
scenes tales
*Library Journal*
This memoir by the English actress who rose to fame as a child star
for Disney is rather like a Disney movie: enchanting, entertaining
and only fleetingly dark
*Shelf Awareness*
Hayley writes frankly and cogently about her life, her experiences
. . . The reader is also treated to the behind the scenes of the
movie making process . . . A must read for the Hayley Mills fan,
but it is also a salient, relevant chronicle of an actor's life -
not only a life against the backdrop of a busy movie making career
but a life where conflicts musts be addressed and resolved
*Post-Gazette*
Refreshingly clear-eyed
*SUNDAY EXPRESS*
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