Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 404th episode of Awards Chatter, Hollywood

Reporter's Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a film legend.

In the early 1960s this blonde-haired blue-eyed youngster was the most popular child star in

the world, and in the words of Turner Classic Movies quote,

the epitome of English wholesomeness, close quote, anchoring the Disney films Pollyanna

in 1960, the parent trap in 1961, in search of the castaways in 1962, Summer Magic in 1963,

the Moon Spinners in 1964, and that darn cat in 1965.

She became one of the top box office attractions of each of those years, and over that time period

was voted a BAFTA award for most promising newcomer to leading film roles, a golden

global award for New Star of the Year, and the last juvenile Academy Award ever presented.

And from the parent trap, she even had a top 10 hit on the US singles charts.

Let's get together.

The author of the new memoir Forever Young, Haley Mills.

Over the course of our conversation, the 75-year-old and I discussed the challenges and rewards

of child stardom and what it was like working for Walt Disney in the first years of her

life and the last years of his, what led her to pass on a role in Stanley Kubrick's

risqué Lolita in 1962, but to accept a role in Roy Bulting's risqué The Family Way

in 1966, what her life has been like in the decade since, from motherhood to fame to

parts in the theater, and as the title character on the TV series Good Morning Miss Bliss,

which ran from 1987 through 1989 and spawned saved by the bell, what inspired her to look

back at her own life in her new memoir and what she learned about herself in so doing,

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