Hayley Mills'teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's greatest coming-of-age family movies: Pollyanna,The Parent Trap and In Search of the Castaways.
Now,and for the first time,Hayley wants to tell the story of those years,and in her own words. The trigger was being taken back to see Walt DS's restored office - rather like the scene from Saving Mr Banks - and having the DS archives opened up to her. There she discovered for the first time all the machinations that had gone into shaping - and arguably arresting - her career.
As one of the era's great teen idols,she realised she spent a decade not being allowed to grow up,with the world changing around her just as she was changing herself.
This is a story Hayley tells up to the age of 21,'because that's when my life became my own - it's the bit that went before that I want to take back.'It is told with characteristic warmth and filled with many fond memories,although it is one that includes mismanagement,bankruptcy,strained family relationships and dislocation. The nostalgia and evocation of a bygone era is immense. It is a frank telling of the reality behind the set dressing - and of Hayley's survival.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781474619363Number of pages: 400Weight: 660 gDimensions: 238 x 162 x 44 mm
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An affectionate but clear-eyed memoir of an unusual career that began at the tender age of 12As 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...DelightfulA 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 passageWith 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 iconA natural storyteller,as so many actors are,Mills takes us on that wide-eyed 12-year-old's journey...If you loved those DS 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 craftHayley's insights into DS and the interaction between DS 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 yearsThe iconic star of Pollyanna and The Parent Trap recalls her rise to stardom,her experiences on set,and her friendship with Walt DS in this endearing memoir...A warm-hearted peek behind the curtain at youthful fame and filmmaking in the 1960sChild 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 talesThis memoir by the English actress who rose to fame as a child star for DS is rather like a DS movie: enchanting,entertaining and only fleetingly darkHayley 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 resolvedRefreshinglyclear-eyed
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