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Pollyanna (1960) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Pollyanna: Directed by David Swift. With Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden. A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- David Swift
- 1960-05-19
Pollyanna is a 1960 American comedy-drama film starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. The film was written and directed by David Swift, based on the 1913 novel Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter.
66 Metascore. 1960. 2 hr 14 mins. Drama, Family, Comedy, Kids. G. Watchlist. Where to Watch. At 14, Hayley Mills received a special Oscar for this Disney adaptation of the Eleanor H. Porter stories...
- David Swift
Eleanor H. Porter. Novel. David Swift. Screenplay. A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith.
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Pollyanna (1960), based on the novel by Eleanor H. Porter, was Hayley Mills' first film for the Walt Disney Studios and also her first American film. Disney had made his name and fortune creating animated films but by 1960 he had shifted his focus to family-oriented live-action movies.
