{"id":2173,"date":"2024-10-26T08:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T08:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2024-10-26T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T08:25:53","slug":"sad-news-actress-hayley-mills-reveals-parents-never-told-shed-won-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=2173","title":{"rendered":"SAD NEWS: Actress Hayley Mills reveals parents never told her she’d won an Oscar – and why"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hayley Mills is 73 next month, and she looks wonderful \u2013 slim, blonde and pretty.<\/p>\n

Her beautifully modulated voice is sweet and unmistakably\u00a0Hayley, the sound of which instantly transports us back to the fabulous films that made her an international star when she was in her early teens \u2013 classics such as Tiger Bay, Pollyanna, Whistle Down The Wind and Parent Trap.<\/p>\n

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In 1961 aged just 14, she even won a juvenile\u00a0Oscar\u00a0\u2013 the very last time it was awarded \u2013 for Pollyanna, although her parents, actor Sir John Mills and writer Mary Hayley Bell, chose not to tell her at the time.<\/p>\n

\u2018My parents decided not to let me go to the ceremony, because I was very young,\u2019 she explains.<\/p>\n

\u2018It was part of their attitude towards me when I was a child, that I should be kept as unaffected by the world I was now moving in as possible.<\/p>\n

‘So I went off to school, then when I came back from making a movie in Hollywood, I\u2019d go back to school.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Not that she resents this.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think my parents were very wise,\u2019 she says.<\/p>\n

Besides she was indulged in some ways, like being shown around\u00a0Disney\u00a0World by Walt Disney himself.<\/p>\n

\u2018It was magic for a child,\u2019 she smiles.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was so very lucky, wasn\u2019t I? I loved making the films \u2013 it didn\u2019t feel that very different from the imaginary games I played.<\/p>\n

‘I always felt very at home in front of a camera \u2013 kind of protected and safe.<\/p>\n

‘I never had any nerves or felt self-conscious.<\/p>\n

‘I was working with wonderful, sensitive and intelligent directors.<\/p>\n

‘And very experienced actors, one of whom was my father.<\/p>\n

‘He was an inspiration to me \u2013 everything about him, his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business, was inspiring.<\/p>\n

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The actress’s parents \u2013 Mary Hayley Bell and Sir John Mills<\/span><\/div>\n

‘I was very lucky to have him as a role model.<\/p>\n

‘He was so full of energy and was a great one for making exciting plans.<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019d come home from boarding school and never be quite sure about where we were living, because we\u2019d have moved to a farm in the country.<\/p>\n

‘We moved so many times, I don\u2019t know how my mother coped.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is perhaps one of the reasons why Hayley is very happy staying put at her home in south west London, which she shares with her partner, Indian-American actor Firdous Bamji.<\/p>\n

‘They have been together since 1997, but have never married. Do they have any plans to?<\/p>\n

\u2018If it ain\u2019t broken, why fix it?\u2019 she quips.<\/p>\n

\u2018We are as good as married and feel as married as we could ever be.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re completely committed to each other and very happy.<\/p>\n

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With her partner, American actor Firdous Bamji<\/span><\/div>\n

\u2018We\u2019re a couple like any other \u2013 when we\u2019re not working, we\u2019re busy doing errands and daily maintenance stuff.<\/p>\n

\u2018We share the chores.<\/p>\n

‘We like walking and travelling.<\/p>\n

‘We read, cook together\u2026 all the normal stuff.<\/p>\n

\u2018And we see a lot of the boys and their families.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The boys\u2019 are musician and film producer Crispian Mills, 46, from Hayley\u2019s seven-year marriage to film director Roy Boulting who Hayley met on the set of 1966 film The Family Way, and theatre director Jason Lawson, 41, the son she shares with writer and actor Leigh Lawson.<\/p>\n

And Hayley is a glam gran. Crispian and his wife, Jo, have two sons, Keshava, 10, and Hari, seven, while Jason and wife Virginia are parents to Soloman, three, and Evalina, 18 months.<\/p>\n

Hayley clearly adores being a grandma.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m so lucky in that they all live less than an hour away from us,\u2019 she smiles.<\/p>\n

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Her beautifully modulated voice is sweet and unmistakably\u00a0Hayley, the sound of which instantly transports us back to the fabulous films that made her an international star when she was in her early teens \u2013 classics such as Tiger Bay, Pollyanna, 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