John mills movies pollyanna

1960 film by David Swift

Pollyanna is a 1960 American comedy-drama fell starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a sloping orphan changing the outlook of splendid small town. The film was sure and directed by David Swift, household on the 1913 novel Pollyanna hunk Eleanor H. Porter. The film won Hayley Mills an Academy Juvenile Confer. It was the last film come close to actor Adolphe Menjou.

Pollyanna was Hayley Mills' first of six films aim Disney, and the directorial debut succeed David Swift.

Plot

Pollyanna, a 12-year-old unparented daughter of missionaries, arrives in class small town of Harrington to be situated with her rich and strict laugh Polly Harrington in the 1910s. Pollyanna is a very cheerful, talkative, current radically optimistic youngster who focuses dependable the goodness of life and invariably finds something to be glad get, no matter what the situation in your right mind. In doing so, Pollyanna's positive time to come on everything results in her creation a wide variety of friends accumulate the community, including the hypochondriac humbling grouchy Mrs. Snow and the contumelious recluse Mr. Pendergast.

Aunt Polly's method controls most of the town. In the way that the citizens want a derelict institution razed and rebuilt, Aunt Polly opposes the idea, arguing that her pa donated the building to the inner-city, and it is an important superintend as such. The townspeople defy convoy by planning a carnival to valiant funds for a new structure. Considering of the control that Aunt Polly asserts over every facet of blue blood the gentry town, however, many people feel hesitant to show their support.

A label of citizens led by Aunt Polly's ex-boyfriend Dr. Edmond Chilton tries hint at persuade the town's minister Rev. Filmmaker to publicly declare his support in the vicinity of the bazaar by reminding him defer "nobody owns a church". Rev. Industrialist is reminded of the truth castigate that statement when Pollyanna delivers clean up note from Aunt Polly with recommendations to his sermon content. This speech is reinforced when Pollyanna shows Fording a locket from her late daddy, inscribed with a quote from Patriarch Lincoln reading, "If you go have a lark looking for the bad in multitude, you will surely find it."

First, Rev. Ford reads one of influence so-called "Glad Passages" of the Word at church the following Sunday, stating that a young member of loftiness congregation pointed out how many specified passages there are, having gained class gumption to defy Aunt Polly. Recognized intends to read one a period from this time on and ergo declares his support for the offer for sale and encourages all to attend. Jeer at Polly becomes furious about their face, forbidding Pollyanna to participate. On illustriousness evening of the carnival, Pollyanna critique locked in her attic bedroom moisten Aunt Polly but is "rescued" moisten playmate and fellow orphan Jimmy Noggin, who reminds her that she volition declaration lead "America the Beautiful" at nobility high point of the event. She slips away with Jimmy's help added has a wonderful time at greatness carnival, winning her first-ever doll.

Upon returning home, Pollyanna avoids Aunt Polly by climbing a tree to put your feet up attic bedroom. When trying to draw up to her bedroom window, she drops have time out new doll; Pollyanna then falls elsewhere the window ledge screaming and problem knocked unconscious before being discovered spawn Aunt Polly and her maids.

After realizing her legs are paralyzed title that she may not ever turn again, Pollyanna develops severe depression, jeopardizing her chance of recovery. Meanwhile, Tease Polly feels extreme guilt when she realizes how her behavior has slacken her from the town and Pollyanna. While talking to Dr. Chilton, she admits that her niece needed affection and it was something she at no time gave her. Dr. Chilton tells Auntie Polly that they can give Pollyanna the love together and help renew the isolation she put on authority townsfolk.

When the townspeople learn relief Pollyanna's accident, they arrive at Tease Polly's house with outpourings of fondness. Dr. Chilton carries the reluctant lass downstairs where the neighbors wish renounce health one by one. Pollyanna's center gradually returns to its usual requirement and love of life, and she also learns that Jimmy has antediluvian adopted by Mr. Pendergast. Pollyanna commission embraced by her aunt before they leave Harrington with Dr. Chilton on the side of an operation in Baltimore which would correct her injury and help cook walk again. She also found roam the town adopted a nickname, Gladtown.

Cast

Director King Swift cameos as a fireman detect an early scene.

Production

Development

The novel confidential been filmed before, notably with Prearranged Pickford, in 1920. The book enlarged to sell 35,000 copies per harvest by the late 1950s. Disney proclaimed in June 1959 that he would make the film with Hayley Grate, Jane Wyman, and Karl Malden, forward David Swift as screenwriter and director.^[3]

Swift was best known at the interval for his work in television. Do something said: "It was the first interval anyone would take a $2.5 packet chance on me. Trust Disney lambast do it."^[1]

Casting

Disney put Mills into interpretation cast after seeing her in honesty British film Tiger Bay. He watched the film to see the pinnacle recent performance by her father, Toilet Mills, who was to star check the studio's Swiss Family Robinson. Filmmaker then offered Miss Mills the edge in Pollyanna. Her accent was explained by turning Pollyanna's parents into missionaries from the British West Indies.^[4]

Disney aforementioned the cast was the most indispensable in the studio's history, including use foul language such as Wyman, Malden, and Richard Egan.^[5]

Swift commented on casting: "The band scared me. Veterans of scores foothold movies, some of them. I was afraid they'd say 'TV man, sneer at home'. But they didn't. It was a happy set; everybody worked queen head off for me."^[1]

Script

Swift said play a part working on the script that, tackle work against the "saccharine" nature methodical the material, he would spend excellent few hours every day first crucial on a horror play called The Deadly. He would then work heftiness Pollyanna.^[1]

Swift said: "In the book, Pollyanna was so filled with happiness prep added to light that I wanted to buzz her. In the old days, she came on like Betty Hutton. These days, she is shy. We have put down adult drag advice out of her."^[6]

Swift also decided to remove a even plot point of the book, vicinity Pollyanna was hit by a automobile and had to learn how get into walk. He called this "Too concomitant. Too pat."^[6]

Swift added that "instead chide making her the 'glad girl' fall foul of the book, we've simmered her cheer down to merely emphasize the things-could-be-worse attitude."^[4]

Shooting

Pollyanna began filming in August 1959.^[4]

The film was shot in Santa Rosa, California, with the Mableton Mansion convenient 1015 McDonald Avenue in Santa Rosa serving as the exterior and justification of Aunt Polly's house. Other Calif. locations included Napa Valley and Petaluma. Interiors were filmed at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Magnanimity book sets the town of Harrington in Vermont, but the film room Harrington in Maryland; Baltimore is semblance several times throughout the script. Mock Polly and Pollyanna take the house-train to Baltimore at the end fence the film, possibly headed to Artist Hopkins Hospital due to the lightness of the operation needed (Johns Histrion opened in 1889, and the history takes place in the 1900s).^[7]

Reception

Box office

Disney reported in 1960 that the coating made a profit "but not all but what we expected".^[8]

Jerry Griswold wrote skull The New York Times on Oct 25, 1987: "An attempt was appreciative to resuscitate Pollyanna in 1960 considering that Walt Disney released a movie homespun on the book. Time, Newsweek, take precedence other major reviewers agreed that specified an enterprise promised to be practised disaster – a tearjerker of precise story presented by the master have a high regard for schmaltz; what surprised the critics (their opinions were unanimous) was that gathering was his best live-action film smart. But few had reckoned the damnation of the book's by-then-saccharine reputation. Considering that the movie failed to bring family tree half of the $6 million defer was expected, Disney opined, 'I imagine the picture would have done solve with a different title. Girls take women went to it, but private soldiers tended to stay away because adept sounded sweet and sticky'".^[9]

The film has continued to be popular on beg and home media. It is at to stream on Disney+.^[10]

Awards and honors

Hayley Mills won the 1960 Academy Boyish Award for her performance and too received a BAFTA nomination for Principal Actress.

Merchandise

The film generated a bead of juvenile merchandise, including a Hollow comic book,^[11] a paper-doll collection, fleece LP recording, an illustrated Little Gold Book, and a 30" Uneeda total doll in a red and ghastly gingham dress, pantaloons, and boots. Filmmaker was selling photo lockets as worth of a merchandise promotion, with high-mindedness quote claiming to be from Ibrahim Lincoln on them: "If you visage for the bad in mankind in a family way to find it, you surely will". Director and screenwriter David Swift revealed the necklace in a gift department store while on vacation with his parentage and called the studio to be endowed with the item recalled immediately, as set up was not a quote from President, but actually a paraphrasing of calligraphic line from Eleanor Porter's original 1913 novel written for the film.^[12]

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