Forever Young
- Author Hayley Mills
- Narrator Hayley Mills
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 16 hours and 14 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Film, TV and Radio industries, Individual actors and performers, Memoirs.
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What to expect
What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child?
Hayley Mills's teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's greatest family movies: classics like Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and In Search of the Castaways, and in Britain the acclaimed Whistle Down the Wind. Overnight, Hayley became a teen idol and a household name.
In Forever Young Hayley takes us back to a bygone era, charting a journey from her carefree childhood in post-war Britain, growing up in the shadow of her famous theatrical family, to being propelled into the Technicolor boomtown of 1960s Hollywood, where she was mentored to stardom by Walt Disney himself. With characteristic warmth, honesty and humour, Hayley finally shares her own coming-of-age story - a tale of incredible twists of fate and fortune.
Critics Review
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An affectionate but clear-eyed memoir of an unusual career that began at the tender age of 12
INDEPENDENT -
As charming on the page as she’s ever been on the screen. Her memoir touches on growing up in a family of performers, thoughtfully considers life as a child star, and finds honest, often very funny, ways to examine what it means to live in and around the spotlight . . . Delightful
Town & Country -
A greatly enjoyable and eye-opening memoir: a showbusiness chronicle which proves equal parts celebration and cautionary tale . . . Forever Young is an unexpected treat: a brave and revealing memoir with nary a dull passage
Wall Street Journal -
With a novelistic eye for detail and a disarming sense of humor, Mills illuminates her extraordinary past while evoking the lost empire of mid-20th-century Hollywood . . . The result is a luminous work commensurate with the unforgettable movies that made Mills an icon
Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
A natural storyteller, as so many actors are, Mills takes us on that wide-eyed 12-year-old’s journey . . . If you loved those Disney movies, or just want to get a sense of what life was like in a Hollywood very different from how it is today, Forever Young is a pleasure. One of its joys is watching Mills grow up on the page, learning to love her craft
Seattle Times -
Hayley’s insights into Disney and the interaction between Disney and Hayley and the Mills family are worth the price of admission . . . You’ll likely love reading this behind-the-scenes account of what our Hayley was really up to during her formative years
New York Journal of Books
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