1. Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills was born on 18 April 1946 and is an English actress.
38 Facts About Hayley Mills
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Hayley Mills's sister is actress Juliet Mills and her brother writer and producer Jonathan Mills.
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Bill Anderson, one of Walt Disney's producers, saw Tiger Bay and suggested that Hayley Mills be given the lead role in Pollyanna.
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Hayley Mills was offered the title role in Lolita by Stanley Kubrick, but her father turned it down.
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Disney ended up dropping the project, while still retaining film rights to the book, when the novelist and the selected screenwriter Sally Benson did not get along; Hayley Mills grew too old for the part before the project could be revived.
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Hayley Mills had a change of pace with Sky West and Crooked, set in the world of gypsies, written by her mother and directed by her father, but it was not commercially successful.
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The success of "Let's Get Together" led to the release of a record album on Disney's Buena Vista label, Let's Get Together with Hayley Mills, which included another hit song, "Johnny Jingo".
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Hayley Mills felt her character castings led to her "repeating herself" with the studio.
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For Universal, Hayley Mills made another film with her father, The Truth About Spring, co-starring Disney regular James MacArthur as her love interest.
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Hayley Mills then provided the voice of the Little Mermaid for The Daydreamer.
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Shortly after The Truth About Spring, Hayley Mills appeared alongside her father and Hywel Bennett in director Roy Boulting's critically acclaimed film The Family Way, a drama about a couple having difficulty consummating their marriage, featuring a score by Paul McCartney and arrangements by Beatles producer George Martin.
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Hayley Mills began a romantic relationship with Boulting and they eventually married, in 1971.
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Hayley Mills then starred as the protagonist of Pretty Polly, opposite famous Indian film actor Shashi Kapoor, in Singapore.
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Hayley Mills made another movie for Boulting, the controversial horror thriller Twisted Nerve in 1968, along with her Family Way co-star Hywel Bennett.
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Hayley Mills made a comedy, Take a Girl Like You, with Oliver Reed and made her West End debut in The Wild Duck in 1970.
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Hayley Mills worked for Boulting again on Mr Forbush and the Penguins, replacing the original female lead.
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In 1972 Hayley Mills again acted opposite Hywel Bennett in Endless Night along with Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson and George Sanders.
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In 1981, Hayley Mills returned to acting with a starring role in the UK television mini-series The Flame Trees of Thika, based on Elspeth Huxley's memoir of her childhood in East Africa.
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Hayley Mills then returned to America and made two appearances on The Love Boat in 1985, and an episode of Murder, Hayley Mills Wrote in 1986.
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Always welcomed at Disney, Hayley Mills narrated an episode of The Wonderful World of Disney, sparking renewed interest in her Disney work.
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Hayley Mills starred as the title character in the Disney Channel-produced television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1987.
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Hayley Mills recalled her childhood in the 2000 documentary film Sir John Hayley Mills' Moving Memories, which was directed by Marcus Dillistone and produced by her brother Jonathan.
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From 2007 to 2012, she appeared as Caroline in the ITV1 African vet drama Wild at Heart; her sister Juliet Hayley Mills was a guest star in the drama, which was the first time they had appeared on screen together.
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In 2010, Hayley Mills appeared in Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure, based on one of the popular Mandie novels of Lois Gladys Leppard.
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Hayley Mills guest-starred in episodes of Midsomer Murders and Moving On in 2014.
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In 2021, Hayley Mills played Michael Sheen's mother in the film Last Train to Christmas, and in 2022 she had a recurring role in the television thriller series Compulsion.
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In September 2023, Hayley Mills appeared in an episode of The Wheel of Time.
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Hayley Mills made her stage debut in a 1969 West End revival of Peter Pan.
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In 2001, Hayley Mills starred as Desiree Armfeldt in a production of "A Little Night Music" in Seattle, Washington.
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Hayley Mills starred in the 2018 Off-Broadway run of Isobel Mahon's Party Face at City Center.
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In 1966, while filming The Family Way, 20-year-old Hayley Mills met 53-year-old director Roy Boulting.
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Hayley Mills had a second son, Jason Lawson, born in July 1976, during a relationship with actor Leigh Lawson.
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Hayley Mills wrote the preface to the book The Hare Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking, published in 1984, although she was not a member of Hare Krishna.
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In 1988, Hayley Mills co-edited, with Marcus Maclaine, My God: Letters from the Famous on God and the Life Hereafter.
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Hayley Mills had surgery and started, but quickly abandoned, chemotherapy after only three sessions because of the severity of the side effects.
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Hayley Mills told Good Housekeeping magazine in January 2012 that she had fully recovered.
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Hayley Mills published a memoir about her life and career, Forever Young: A Memoir, in September 2021.
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Let's Get Together with Hayley Mills, released in 1962, was Mills' only solo album.