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I‘m too big of a wimp to read anything gruesome and a word search brought up these lyrics from Hayley Mills and the original Parent Trap.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A memoir if the first 30 or so years of her life. I loved The Parent Trap as a kid, but I've only seen Pollyanna once nd want to check out her other movies. I enjoyed her stories of behind the scenes and with other well known actors. I hated the financial debacle she had and that she had self esteem issues. Overall a good read for any fan of hers.
#nonfiction2022 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa #pantone2022colorchallenge #chiseledstone @Clwojick

This book was such a treat since I grew up on all those hilarious Hayley Mills movies! Loved her behind-the-scenes trivia and fond memories working with O‘Hara, Kerr, Russell, Gypsy Rose Lee and more! Her stories of mentor Walt Disney were the sweetest. Just heard she‘ll be back on stage in London this month in Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Wish I could go!
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@TheAromaofBooks

To this day I still love all of the Disney movies Hayley Mills stared in. Learning of her early years navigating the film industry and also just being a kid made her film characters I love, like Pollyanna, really come to life. Listening to her read the audiobook was also a delightful treat.

The second half dealt more with her later life as a wife and mother, and although I enjoyed it, it didn't have the same nostalgic feel.

Hayley Mills was my favorite actress when I was growing up and this is her story of what it was like to be a child actor. She has a great memory and a voice that she needs others to hear. I was very happy to get to know the real Hayley Mills.

I devoured and adored the first third of the book. Vividly picturing interactions between meeting Walt Disney and memories on set of productions still memorized from childhood. I had no idea Hayley's father is the father in Swiss Family Robinson. But once she started in on films and theater I hadn't a personal connection to, I kinda checked out. It's long and yet not much of her years as a mother. Maybe she plans to have a second memoir some day.

I‘ve only just finished this so I meant yet revise this down, but it is an interesting look at being a child star and she has tried to really analyse what she was feeling and doing as a teenager and young woman. I‘m not sure she always succeeds, but she tries. And she wisely wraps things up in her late 20s after her marriage breaks down, so it really does cover the bits that you‘re interested in aka the Disney years and their immediate aftermath!

#BeginsWith @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

I have this one on hold at my local library and I can't wait to read it. 💛

I decided to skim a bit of this and just look at pictures. I want to remember her from Pollyanna and The Parent Trap and don't want all the rest of the dirt. #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

I enjoyed reading Mills' memoir, which was largely focused on her life and early career in her teens & 20's. She openly shares her struggles with the image projected by her movies, Disney publicity, many interviews and articles, which combined produced someone she didn't recognize and haunted her "Parent Trap style" by an identical twin looking back at me." [?: Mills & her photo double (bottom) & result produced with split screen filming method.]

Starting this memoir today. I loved watching Hayley Mills when I was a kid and cannot count the number of times I watched The Parent Trap.