Juliet Mills: Last News

Golden Age film fans are in for a real treat this week, as Disney actress Hayley Mills returns to our screens over 60 years after making her debut performance all the way back in 1959. The 77 year old actress is best known to fans for playing twins Susan and Sharon in the 1960s Disney classic The Parent Trap, but the highly versatile star also went on to star in numerous other films for the company over the years including Pollyanna, Whistle Down the Wind, Summer Magic and even the Moon Spinners.

EXCLUSIVE: UK and US-based sales, production, and financing company Alliance Media Partners (AMP) have inked a deal with B-movie veteran Charles Band to represent his Full Moon Features film library, including titles such as Trancers and The Puppet Master.

Guy Lodge Film Critic “She’s 100% a professional, and this is a great night for professionals,” said the actor Juliet Mills as she accepted Glenda Jackson’s first Best Actress Oscar on the absent winner’s behalf at the 1970 Academy Awards. On the face of it, it sounds an oddly impersonal thing to say in the circumstances — almost as if Mills knew nothing of Jackson, and opted for the vaguest praise possible. (In fact, it was probably a veiled dig at that year’s Best Actor winner, George C. Scott, who had rather more acrimoniously declined to attend the awards.) It proved, however, a rather apt way for Jackson, then 34, to be welcomed into Hollywood’s inner circle. A proudly working-class Brit who didn’t look or act (on screen or off) like the blushing English roses typically imported from across the pond, Jackson had markedly more interest in being a professional actor than in being a movie star. That spared her, even as she racked up assignments and awards, much of the fuss and frippery associated with A-list status — going to the Oscars included. (She was a no-show each of the four years she was nominated, but did turn up once to present Best Actor. A pro indeed.) And when, in middle age, she tired of acting altogether, she quit as unassumingly as she arrived — instead entering British politics with a sense of liberal-minded duty uncommon in the ranks of celebrities-turned-statesmen.

LA’s Dances With Films Celebrates 26 Years of storytelling June 22-July 2 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. 

Former Passions actor Ben Masters has died. He was 75.