Hayley Mills

[LAHomedog]

A little while ago on one of the threads there was a quick discussion about Hayley Mills. This is the lead story in today's LA Times Calendar section about Hayley Mills and her new memoir about her life at Disney. I don't know if this will open. I hope it will, but there might be a paywall. I hope not. Here:

https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desk...891&edid=7fa970ff-176d-48d6-abc1-69ea587cd213

 

[ChloeTzang]

I first came across her from watching "The Flame Trees of Thika." Wonderful actress, and I read about her bio. Interesting life.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fclzimages.com%2Fmovie%2Flarge%2F7d%2F7d_d_21301_0_TheFlameTreesofThika.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

 

[8letters]

This link is more direct:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...-02/hayley-mills-memoir-pollyanna-parent-trap

 

[RetroFan]

When I first saw the title of this thread I thought she had died. Glad this wasn't the case.

 

[SimonDoom]

Seems like an unusual celebrity to discuss at Literotica.

The thing I never understood about Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, her most famous role, is she plays two American girls and she speaks with a British accent. It makes no sense at all.

 

[NotWise]

Seems like an unusual celebrity to discuss at Literotica.

The thing I never understood about Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, her most famous role, is she plays two American girls and she speaks with a British accent. It makes no sense at all.

That somehow never bothered me.

 

[SimonDoom]

That somehow never bothered me.

Sometimes I get bugged by little things.

 

[jaF0]

Oddly enough, the first role of hers that comes to mind is Miss Bliss.

 

[LAHomedog]

The thing I never understood about Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, her most famous role, is she plays two American girls and she speaks with a British accent. It makes no sense at all.

In the remake wiith Lindsy Lohan they explain it by having one of the twins grow up in London.

Me? I always preferred "The Patty Duke" show even though they were identical cousins not sisters to avoid a lawsuit from Disney and David Swift the movie's screenwriter/director.

 

[NotWise]

It looks like financial planning wasn't a big thing in her circle.

 

[sirhugs]

Seems like an unusual celebrity to discuss at Literotica.

The thing I never understood about Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, her most famous role, is she plays two American girls and she speaks with a British accent. It makes no sense at all.

some of us might admit to her being their first crush...

 

[NotWise]

some of us might admit to her being their first crush...

Bingo!

 

[TadOverdon]

Thank goodness. I thought I was going to open this thread to read that she had passed.

 

[PennameWombat]

Maybe I shouldn't admit this... but I had to read this thread, the article and IMDB to learn who this person is and why anyone might remember her.

Yeah, I've heard of The Parent Trap but I've never seen it nor did it trigger any interest in me caring about it, despite having been a child in the 1960s. And her other work I'm utterly unaware of.

Something I keep in mind when I drop real life references into my stories. Just because I have deep memories of Vanishing Point ("it was a 440 Magnum, I saw the decal!") doesn't mean anyone else does.

 

[NotWise]

Maybe I shouldn't admit this... but I had to read this thread, the article and IMDB to learn who this person is and why anyone might remember her.

Yeah, I've heard of The Parent Trap but I've never seen it nor did it trigger any interest in me caring about it, despite having been a child in the 1960s. And her other work I'm utterly unaware of.

Something I keep in mind when I drop real life references into my stories. Just because I have deep memories of Vanishing Point ("it was a 440 Magnum, I saw the decal!") doesn't mean anyone else does.

I never saw her version of Pollyanna, but when my older sister and I were in grade school the local theaters gave out Saturday matinee tickets to anyone on the honor roll. We saw "In Search of the Castaways" that way (movie based on a Jules Verne novel) and I'll never get over the crush I had on her.

I hadn't realized that "In Search of the Castaways" was a Jules Verne story until I found the movie on IMDb. Being honest with myself, Jules Verne might be my all-time favorite author. It's not just that I like his dated stories, but that I love so many of the movies, cartoons, and TV shows that spun off them.

 

[KeithD]

Hmmm, I never thought of Hayley Mills as someone anyone would have a crush on.

 

[jaF0]

Nope.

 

[NotWise]

Hmmm, I never thought of Hayley Mills as someone anyone would have a crush on.

Maybe you were too old. I'm a few years younger than Hayley.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Take a Girl Like You (1970)

 

[MillieDynamite]

I've never heard of her either. But we don't watch old Disney stuff, other than some ScFy. 20,000 leagues under the sea, Black Hole, Tron. But not the computer wore tennis shoes.

 

[KeithD]

Maybe you were too old. I'm a few years younger than Hayley.

Hayley Mills is older than I am.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Hmmm, I never thought of Hayley Mills as someone anyone would have a crush on.

Take a Girl Like You (1970)

Maybe you're only thinking of her Disney years, Pilot. Many youngsters found her more than crushable in flics like that one.

 

[KeithD]

Maybe I didn't think about her much at all. I had a crush on Elizabeth Taylor. (and, later, Paul Newman.)

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Maybe I didn't think about her much at all. I had a crush on Elizabeth Taylor. (and, later, Paul Newman.)

Good choices, Pilot.

 

[SimonDoom]

some of us might admit to her being their first crush...

I get that. Perfectly legit. She was before my time, and I somehow avoided ever seeing The Parent Trap until I was in my 30s or 40s. She was definitely NOT crush material at that point.