Actress Hayley Mills, a l4-year-old scene-stealer from England, makes the kind of impish face that has established her as a movie star in her own country and now the U.S.
Hayley Hills, the impish English Schoolgirl shown in the pictures and on the cover, is only 14: but she is possessed with powers which are wonderful to behold and excruciating to compete with. A veteran scene-stealer after only two movies, she can drive professional actors, crusty with honors and years, plumb daft. On the surface she is a little girl without particular glamor - nothing frightening. But she learned a lot growing up in one of Britain‘s busiest theater families. Today she can communicate more feeling and fetch more love from an audience by just wrinkling up her nose than most actresses can do with a script full of dialogue. With casual skill she stole Tiger Buy, a lovely British film now showing in America, from her own distinguished father. Now in Walt Disney's redo of Pollyanna, the sentimental saga Mary Pickford once played, Haley takes scenes from a castful of giants - from Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead, Adolphe Menjou. And it comes out just fine. […]
