THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a childHayley Mills's teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's greatest family movies: classics like Pollyanna,The Parent Trap and In Search of the Castaways, and in Britain the acclaimed Whistle Down the Wind. Overnight,Hayley became a teen idol and a household name. In Forever Young Hayley takes us back to a bygone era,charting a journey from her carefree childhood in post-war Britain,growing up in the shadow of her famous theatrical family,to being propelled into the Technicolor boomtown of 1960s Hollywood,where she was mentored to stardom by Walt DS himself. With characteristic warmth,honesty and humour,Hayley finally shares her own coming-of-age story - a tale of incredible twists of fate and fortune.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781474619387Number of pages: 400Weight: 320 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 28 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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