Darlings, You All Know I Wanted To Be Hayley Mills.....................

                          I just love this shot of Hayley  in "Pollyanna."  Wouldn't it be nice if I could go back to those carefree days of my innocence, having the same picture taken, with my beloved Cujo??????

                            You know, I think it is high time Hayley got her due, so I am proposing to anyone out there, hopefully someone at the Film Forum, that in the coming year, there be a Hayley Mills Film Festival.  It would show all of her Disney work, and then a few extras.  Consider--

                             1. "Tiger Bay" (1958)--her film debut!
                             2. "Pollyanna"--the first film for Disney, for which she won a Special Juvenile Oscar, the last ever given out.
                            3. "The Parent Trap" (1961)--where she made a Top Ten hit  out of "Let's Get Together," though I preferred the B Side, "Cobbler, Cobbler."
                             4. "Whistle Down The Wind" (1961)--where Hayley and some children think they have found Jesus Christ hiding out in a barn! Definitely not Disney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                             5. "In Search Of The Castaways"--adapted from Jules Verne, with Maurice Chevalier and George Sanders. You have GOT to see the avalanche sequence, girls!  And how Hayley handles it!!!!!!!!!!!  Only from Disney!
                              6. "Summer Magic" (1963)--Oh, my God!  Burl Ives, and "The Ugly Bug Ball!"

You just gotta hear it, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Disney, of course!

                               7.  "The Chalk Garden" (1964)--where Hayley goes for the drama gold, acting in an Enid Bagnold  play adaptation!!!!!!!!!!!!!  With her own father, Deborah Kerr and Edith Evans!!!!!!!!!!!  Taking a Disney break!
                                8. "The Moon-Spinners" (1964)--where Hayley goes totally sophisticated, girls!!!!!!!!!   I will have more to say on this!!!!!!!!!!  Even my mother saw this one! An adult departure for Walt Disney!!!!!!!!!!
                                9. "That Darn Cat" (1965)--Hayley's last film for Disney, and loved by all! Better than that Cristina Ricci remake!!  No offense, Cristina, but you should have kept your paws off it! No one competes with Hayley Mills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 And, Of Course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                              10. "The Trouble With Angels"--where Mother Superior Rosalind Russell matches wits, with, but can't steal scenes from, Hayley and June Harding!  What ever happened to Harding?
Who cares? Hayley is the one to watch, and wait to you see that ending!  If "The Song Of Bernadette" makes you cry, this may, too.

                                   Ten films!!!!!!!!!!  That's more than some get!  I say, let's get busy and
watch some Hayley Mills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    "Summer Magic!"  Oh, my God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!