Hayley & Juliet Mills: The Extended Interview

With Hayley & Juliet Mills taking to the stage for 'Legends' at QPAC, we caught up with the talented sisters.

[@brucegately831]

I was the First Class purser on a Pan Am flight from Los Angeles to London, 40 years ago, and Hayley Mills was our passenger. She came on crying because she was leaving her sister in L.A. She was so charming and one of the nicest passengers I ever had the pleasure of serving.

[@larrypierce2777]

I must have watched the, "Parent Trap," ten times in my life time or more. With Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. It was just a heart warming movie. It made my child hood. I loved Hayley Mills. She was so mischievous and beautiful. She hasn't changed. Good seeing her and her sister Juliet. Both were great actresses.

[@dttruman]

We were raised on Nanny and the Professor. Both have done well.

[@iowabettyg]

yes, i forgot about THE PARENT TRAP; she was wonderful in it with brian and maureen!! betty gordon, ames, iowa fan

[@LovesDavidCassidy]

I also have the parent trap and the parent trap 2

[@artiste335]

Same here. Loved "The Parent Trap"...saw it over and over and always just adored Hayley Mills.

[@su-rv2uq]

I remember reading a comment by Hayley once, in which she said that back then "the industry tried to keep children from growing up, , and now they make kids grow up too fast" which was completely true, giving them child parts as long as they possibly could then, and now giving them far too mature parts. Well said.

[@jv-ep2tc]

i am stunned at how Hayley is so recognizable. To woman of a certain age, she meant so much. She was a wonderful actress. The Moonspinners was a highlight for me.

[@sandyschutt6132]

j v I loved the moon spinners found the movie on vhs enjoy watching it again

[@simonramsay6080]

The Moonspinners is one of my favs too. I have it on DVD :-)

[@simonramsay6080]

@Evelyn Brown I'm not the only one who's mentioned The Moonspinners, so why did you ask me? :-D it certainly don't sound like a "hillbilly gang"! I could say I've no idea what you're talking about!

[@iowabettyg]

moon spooners, that's the dutch windmill one i was trying to think of...thanks for naming it! betty gordon, ames, iowa

[@jv-ep2tc]

@@iowabettyg LOL betty! am sure you meant spinners.

[@rippi37]

I can remember seeing Hayley Mills on screen when I was a young girl , I loved her accent , and wished to look and sound like her !! They are both gorgeous , natural women who are lovely and unaffected people !!! And great actors , of course !!

[@eileenmartin9986]

''The Trouble With Angels'' was the best of Haley's young life.

[@hortondlfn1994]

She had some scathingly brilliant ideas.

[@cydkriletich6538]

eileen martin LOVED it! I also loved a very early black and white movie of Hayley’s in which she co-starred with her father. It may have been her first. I think it was called something like “Tiger Bay,” where John Mills plays an escaped convict hiding in a boat and discovered by children. I fell in loved with her then. Like several other women commented here, I, too, would have named a daughter Hayley after HM had I ever had children.

[@hollisheyn1339]

Whistle Down the Wind

[@katperson7332]

@@cydkriletich6538 a bit confused here. Whistle down the Wind had an escaped prisoner hiding in a barn, not a boat, and John Mills wasn’t in it, just Hayley.

[@iowabettyg]

boy, you all keep mentioning the ones i loved also where stayed on to be a nun at the end! their smoking in that little building outside and the fire dept. comes! lol. betty gordon, ames, iowa

[@rosannap2651]

I love hayley She Is my Pollyanna for ever

[@LeRoi715]

one of my best childhood films; not on the youtube anymore...cheers from Toronto!

[@iowabettyg]

yes, hayley in pollyanna, the dutch windmill one, & the one where they rented the summer house belonging to peter brown; that was hilarious! betty gordon, ames, iowa fan forever

[@cynthiaennis3107]

I loved the movies The Trouble With Angels, Pollyanna w/Hayley & the tv show Nanny & The Professor w/Juliet! This was great. Thank you!

[@TheLizzie12]

Wonderful! So rare to see this two legends together. Thanks for sharing. In 1990 their father Sir John Mills took part in a charity gala at the London Palladium and I managed to get a seat at the back...to my joy I was seated behind Hayley and Juliet! And after their father performed a nifty song and dance number, they jumped up and gave him a standing ovation (with the rest of us). Bravo!

[@susansimons5577]

OMG, I love Haley Mills, I grew up with her movies. They both look beautiful. Greetings from Canada

[@ThePersian61]

What lovely classy ladies. I named my daughter after Hayley, she's 34 now.

[@laurelbozman6997]

Lovely

[@lisamercier391]

So did I , my daughter is 27 now

[@linrob1312]

They are two very classy dames...from a wonderful dynasty.And what lovely voices.

[@DeborahBoily]

She also did a wonderful film with her father called Tiger Bay. Wonderful heart tugging film..

[@brendareeves2593]

That was an excellent movie. She was just 12 years old when she did that movie.

[@slcRN1971]

Evelyn Brown : yes, I really liked that movie “The Truth About Spring” 1965.

[@eileenpollock8364]

Oh, Tiger Bay was a first class movie that has been overlooked. Hayley's first film, and she was so realistic! And a great story, the rapport between the child and the sailor who committed murder in a jealous rage - but he protected the child and ultimately, saved her life.

[@jettcarlburg356]

God how I love Juliet!!!! When I was a little girl she was Phoebe Figalilly and she is still beautiful to me all these years later. Bless this lovely woman!!!!

[@deancarter8667]

Lovely to see them together. I have loved Hayley since I was a child watching her films she's just a tad older than me

[@amymurphy5629]

wow Hayley's voice is just so amazing - that innocent quality of speaking/ sound never left her...thats one of the things that made her such a great disney star!

[@iowabettyg]

i also think of her for her POSITIVE things said in POLLYANNA where she challenged minister about how many GLAD THINGS there are in the bible where he went thru it and gave her an accurate number. loved how she and moochy/kevin corcoran went to old man pedigas, sp, and got him changed in personality where he was going to adopy moochy!! seeling all those prisms! betty gordon, ames, iowa fan

[@kathrynmolesa1641]

I loved Pollyanna as a child. My children loved it. Now my grandchildren love it. Timeless

[@frankdenardo8684]

Juliet Mills was Phoebe Figalilly on Nanny & The Professor. She was an English Nanny to a widower math teacher and three kids. Hayley from Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, That Darn Cat. Their dad was the legendary Sir John Mills.

[@leemclaury6251]

I was in love withHayley Mills’s a kid in the 60s . I remember the Disney movies.

[@calamityj3634]

Beautiful classy ladies both.. No Botox and fake body parts just pure talent and integrity :)

[@C.Church]

Calamityj .. why do people bring that garbage up in alleged compiments?

[@victoryluck]

@@C.Church oh, please, they look so bad.

[@laurelbozman6997]

@@victoryluck it's called growing older naturally.

[@carltonpoindexter2034]

And they look beautiful instead of the same cookie cutter face lifts that make everyone look like the demented JOKER. Always wished that they could have all done a film together.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Well said and well put ! They're both still lovely ladies and Juliet looks SO much like her dad !

[@laurietijerina1411]

My favorite movie is "Moonspinners" with Hayley Mills, It's such a romantic movie!

[@carltonpoindexter2034]

Yes, was that ever on DVD?

[@colindant3410]

@@carltonpoindexter2034 Yes.

[@carltonpoindexter2034]

@@colindant3410 Thank you, I will look for it for my sister.

[@donnahilton471]

Was mine also! Sat through nine times! I have it on VHS as an adult.

[@cashhall8514]

On Disney+.

[@willettej7988]

I always wanted to be Hayley Mills. Especially when she worked with Horst Bucholtz!! And I LOVE the fact that they still look like themselves, instead of pathetic, plastic and pulled!

[@simonramsay6080]

Well said! They're not frightened to look themselves, and they're seem to be comfortable being themselves, especially Juliet! The film with Horst Buscholz was Tiger Bay, her 1st one :-)

[@Greenwillow]

Apparently there was talk of her doing a sequel to Tiger Bay with Horst Bucholtz many years later when she was much older. Would love to have seen them get together after he came out of Prison. Love that movie.😉

[@j.a.2120]

I can't believe I've been watching These two ALL These year's, Yet it Never clicked that They were related. Nanny and the professor was a favorite. 😊

[@Lex-Hawthorn]

I had a drink with Hayley Mills, at a highwaymen concert in Sydney in the early 90s, seems neither of us could stand the noise of the support act. One of my childhood sweethearts

[@paulineparker3662]

I always did enjoy the movies these beautiful ladies starred in. Their father John Mills was an excellant actor. It would be nice to see these types of movies again.

[@suemosley5767]

I loved all those Hayley Mills films they were my childhood!

[@greenleavesofsummer9673]

Sue Mosley Hayley mills and Shirley Temple movies I loved so, so much!

[@MileyonDisney]

I am an old man and I can say that I sure had a crush on these two girls when I was a youngster.

[@billhaywood3503]

me too

[@alex-dd3hu]

Cripes, me too!

[@carltonpoindexter2034]

Me three.

[@jubalcalif9100]

You clearly have xlnt taste, sir !! :-)

[@TheCrossroads533]

Had a crush? Have a crush. Still.

[@mhail7874]

It was a pleasant surprise to me to have discovered that these two ladies were sisters! I've seen Juliet as the nanny in Nanny and the Professor way before I got into watching Hayley's films. And I'm glad to know now for a fact that they're sisters and what they seem great friends still together and have aged gracefully :)

[@bonitasilver9379]

Love both of these ladies. The years of enjoyment because of these two.

[@johnlee-yo8jc]

Hayley Mills was so adorable in Pollyanna.

[@AnnaliesaRose]

Kicking myself that I didn't know about this because I would have definitely gone to see the show. Very sad the show was already on and I missed it. I love Hayley Mills. She is amazing.

[@sharonmcmann-morelli4896]

julie i remember you in Avanti, it still is one of my favorites. the music the place , Ischia my sister in law had a villa there , unforgettable, great movie and cast.

[@marymattis2280]

both sisters are positively lovely.......................

[@MichaelSmith-ui5zs]

They are. Just watching Carry On Jack MADE IN 1964 with a 23 year old Juliet. She was very pretty, plus I've always loved Hayley.

[@Tmidiman]

Michael Smith

[@bettye444]

Hayley Mills and I are about the same age. I loved her movies as a child. She was a great actress.

[@badad0166]

Is?

[@simonramsay6080]

She still is! Far better now than when she was in her Disney movies i m o

[@franlooving4203]

Aww I haven't heard their voice in a long while. They were everywhere when I was growing up, but I have to say I cannot tell them apart. Sorry. So cute to see them here. I really want to see the actors and actresses of my youth still-who cares if they are older. WE ALL GET OLDER! Thanks for posting here.

[@leanderrowe2800]

I have watched many of Hayley Mills very early films. Her acting was so natural even as a small child. There's no doubt she is the most talented child actor ever. I love her in The Parent Trap and Pollyanna.

[@beetee7463]

Haley sounds exactly the same as she did in her child acting roles

[@chattingesque372]

yeah just like in Tiger Bay!

[@patrickcrawford5596]

Whistle Down the Wind is so beguiling, charming and gorgeous - Hayley made it - her performance so naturally x

[@eileenpollock8364]

Hayley is so expressive in her speech as she experiences her life in film. You can see she was meant to be an actress. It is touching to see how people remember the films and Hayley Mills is still a part of their formative experiences. I have less experience of Juliet as she was a theatrical actress.

[@janinesmythe-stearns734]

I have just 9 words: The Trouble with Angels & Nanny &the Professor. My faves. 💕

[@louisetingman1826]

Loved, The Flame Trees of Thika.

[@antoniospanayiotou8619]

Hayley Mills was an Icon of a bygone romantic era of innocence and realism. She is one of my heroes. Thank you dear... a far cry from the vulgarity of today!

[@deltas4114]

This popped up today, and earlier today I watched the first episode of Nanny and the Professor. Thanks for the memories.

[@thepearlatelier4256]

I love Hayley Mills. So wonderful and i loved her voice most of all.

[@lh6355]

Iam such a fan of Haley Mills.

[@vikkibyington3066]

Always a favorite of mine...Hayley!

[@snugbug5067]

One of the cutest things involving these two, is I saw a movie from around 1944 and it had John Mills as a man in an English village who adopted 2 orphan youngsters. The children were his real life daughters Juliet at about 4 years old and Haley at about 9 or so months. No mistaking them. I thought that was cute.

[@donnahilton471]

What was the name of it?

[@snugbug5067]

@@donnahilton471 I just tried to look it up and dont know the name of it. I only saw it once. I'm guessing it was from about 1944 to 1946. It was a b/w film. Maybe his oldest daughter got screen credit if she had lines. ? The movie "promise her anything", with Leslie Caron from 1966 had Donald Sutherland as a dad holding an infant at a baby clinic in Manhattan. The baby was about 6 months old and I'm sure it was Keifer Sutherland. Cute !

[@chriskleemeier7150]

It was "So Well Remembered"

[@snugbug5067]

@@chriskleemeier7150 thanks

[@chriskleemeier7150]

See you tube for film debut of Hayley Mills

[@callithowiseeit5806]

Juliet carries so much of her father, even her voice has traces of him, lovely ladies

[@carleavesceo709]

These 2 are fun and fantastic and are loved and admired by a lot of people.

[@crybabexoxo8688]

The Parent Trap

[@chattingesque372]

x2

[@JonathonWoodgate]

I grew up watching the Mills Sisters on tv and in movies... classy ladies, tres classique!

[@janslifejourney5021]

Just as beautiful as they were then

[@victoryluck]

Are you blind or stupid?

[@jubalcalif9100]

I have a notion to second THAT emotion !! What class acts !!

[@lindaallen9874]

I don't think I've ever seen these two together. Nice.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Yes ! This is the first time I too have seen them together !

[@MichaelSmith-ui5zs]

Such classy ladies.

[@masters1313]

Great to see these 2.... wonderful ladies! My all time favorite is 'The Moon Spinners' & 'The Parent Trap' with Hayley Mills.

[@ItalianBrianA]

I loved Nanny and the Professor!

[@jc6594]

Happy 70th Birthday Hayley Mills

[@chocolatcats]

and now 71. She's wonderful (2017)

[@chocolatcats]

she'll be 72 this April 2018....and still a beauty

[@michaelanderson5037]

@@chocolatcats Hayley turns 73 this April. HAYLEY RULES!!!

[@alfching2499]

Whistle Down the Wind and The Family Way,were my good memories

[@iowabettyg]

hayley, HAPPY 75TH last month, april 2021 ;) you look great. betty gordon, ames, iowa, usa

[@keep_it_real_1]

Two gorgeous ladies..xxx

[@atalaykabasakal4754]

They are very sweet and they are so beautiful ❤️❤️🥰🥰🤗🤗

[@markfurrer190]

hayley looks good thankyou for many good times for me to escape from this life….your one of my favorite actors….may you live in an omboo tree forever….

[@jubalcalif9100]

Blimey ! What a fun interview ! THANK YOU so much uploading ! The Mills sisters are both to terrifically talented, as were their parents ! And what lovely ladies ! Watching this has MADE my day & my week ! CHEERS !! :-)

[@birdlynn417]

I didn't know they were sisters!! Awesome. :)

[@robertclark4929]

Good morning Miss Bliss/Saved by the bell.

[@carltonpoindexter2034]

PS, also loved Haley Mills in: Whistle Down the Wind and The Chalk Garden.

[@slcRN1971]

“The Chalk Garden” is a favorite of mine too! Haley Mills was fantastic in this very serious role. The whole cast did wonderful too.

[@prestonnorris9822]

Who wouldn't love these two brilliant humble ladies. I was so blessed to see Hayley in The King and I at The Kennedy Center in 1997....Breathtaking 💙💙💙

[@scotnick59]

Juliet was just *darling* as Nanny

[@denniscarter7347]

Hayley was number one for me, that is until I was aware of Juliet then in my eyes she had to move over. Juliet has a special beauty and personality that has kept me in adoration of her for years. It did not surprise me to learn recently that she has a husband many years he junior. He like me was no doubt smitten by her timeless attractiveness. I have a copy of "Avante" and play it every few months.

[@libra42ful]

OMG!... I'm 54 yrs old, and I never knew these two were sisters!...I feel like I've been in a cave somewhere, or something, lol...love them both, Haley for the parent trap, and all her other great movies (loved the one with the nuns)...and Juliet for the Nanny of course, as well as her other work in TV and movies

[@ruthedwards7775]

"Whistle Down the Wind" is just as good now as it was when it was shot in my home town those decades ago. Saw Hayley in recent years in the stage version of "Ladies in Lavender", with Belinda Lang, it was really good :-)

[@samanthab1923]

I always loved Hayley, Pollyanna & Where Angels Go ...

[@mariedicristoforo9057]

I remember watching Hayley Mills in a movie called Trouble with Angles she"s a good actor she was beautiful can"t belive she aged so much

[@bettye444]

Marie Di cristoforo it happens.

[@FeistyGirl007]

You DO realize, that she is probably in her 70's, RIGHT ???

[@suzanking5625]

Yes! And the Parent Trap - Disney film.

[@iowabettyg]

@@FeistyGirl007 hayley mills just turned 75 in april ;) bgordon, ames, iowa

[@eblackadder3]

I had such a huge crush on Juliet Mills when I was a kid almost 50 years ago...!

[@MultiPetercool]

Don’t you wish she were your “Nanny” 😉

[@eblackadder3]

@@MultiPetercool I do indeed!

[@caroledwards3289]

Both of these ladies have always been people I have admired and looked up to. Both are great actresses who portrayed characters many of us wanted to be or grow up to be like them. They had charm and we're likeable as a friend anyone could meet in life. Much loved as a cousin, family member. Thank you.

[@LymanPhillips]

I think I had the Disney books mentioned in the interview. I remember the drawing of Hayley looking at the chandelier prisms. It also had Old Yeller snapping at the boy behind the barn door - that drawing terrified me.

[@benjaminpick]

I love their voices !!! Hayley sounds exactly the same

[@mervynwright3326]

I fell in love with Hayley Mills when I was 14. When she came to Rosebank in South Africa I was working about 200 meters away but did not know how close she was otherwise I would certainly have made an effort to see her in real life.

[@donnacornell61]

I nursed your beautiful Aunt, many years ago now but I have fond memories of her........respect only

[@iowabettyg]

juliet or hayley mills? thanks for being a nurse! bgordon, ames, iowa, usa

[@badad0166]

I've known and admired both of them my whole (half century+) life and never knew they were sisters. I'm gobsmacked, indeed.

[@57Runnergirl]

Loved them both! ❤️

[@tomatoangel1]

Does anyone remember Haley Mills in the Flame Trees of Thika? It was on Masterpiece theater and she was so very lovely.

[@GeminieCricket]

♥️ Love then both ! I am going to buy The Moonspinners right now ! ♥️

[@thewonderfulworldofderek6087]

I love it good job on 1960s

[@JohnWinchester3567]

Just watching Nanny & the professor with Juliet Mills as the Nanny.

[@suzanne8264]

I loved watching Nanny and the Professor and The Parent Trap!

[@debrasaunders7200]

I saw Juliet Mills in the Berkshire’s New Hampshire and she was breathtaking. Very delicate and so beautiful

[@maiamella3431]

Love Hayley

[@peterfox2538]

Always fancied both of them,Beautiful girls.

[@atalaykabasakal4754]

Seviyorum sizi bana çok sıcak geldiler ikiside Juliet Hayley ❤️❤️

[@kazza5599]

Amazing!!!

[@cathywhite6442]

So love these two and not a Botox in sight! Very classy ladies and of course great actresses

[@angelashevlin2656]

Two beautiful sisters. Natural talented.both look 👀 like dad 👍

[@BB-cs1je]

“Mommy and Daddy” love it!

[@marieharrison150]

I love these two

[@jubalcalif9100]

They're adorable ! I could listen to them all day long...or all night long too for that matter !! :-)

[@beckynelson6786]

Lovely ladies!

[@dianeplamondon125]

I watched Hayley's films when I was young. Such beautiful souvenirs. She was so lovely. My favorite are Pollyanna and Parent Trap. I doesn't know if she still makes films...

[@georgepalumbo3260]

Loved Tiger Bay. Always wanted Haley to be my daughter.

[@judilynn9569]

OMG...I'd totally forgot about "Nanny and the Professor"! So I pulled it up on KZbin and instantly began singing along with the theme song! Remembered every word. lol

[@iowabettyg]

nanny and the professor is still on in central iowa on our cable stations; most of shows we grew up with in 50-60s are on cable here. betty gordon

[@user-st7gd9pg8y]

Never realised these ladies were related.

[@sallyclarke9002]

Beautiful ladies.

[@chrispasini5870]

I watched some of Hayley Mills movies and I remember Juliet on NBC passions soap opera Tabitha Lennox and Timmy