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Based On Novel Or Book | Small Town
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Best British Actress | 1961 | Hayley
Budget 2,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,750,000 USD
According to writer and director David Swift, after looking at 362 girls for the part of Pollyanna, they still did not have anyone to play the part. One day, producer Walt Disney's wife Lilly went shopping with Disney studio head Bill Anderson's wife while they were in London, England on business. The two ladies saw Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay (1959) and thought she was perfect for the role of Pollyanna. The two men didn't listen to them, but they were so persistent that the men finally agreed to watch the movie and immediately decided to cast Hayley.
Roy O. Disney, studio business head and brother to producer Walt Disney, issued thousands of "Pollyanna photo locket necklaces" as a promotional item containing the famous quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln in this movie. Discovering the necklace in a gift shop while on vacation with his family, writer and director David Swift called the studio to have the item recalled immediately. It turned out that Lincoln had never said, "When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." Swift had simply made it up.
When this movie performed below expectations at the box office, producer Walt Disney put out his theory for the movie's disappointing performance: "I think the picture would have done better with a different title. Girls and women went to it, but men tended to stay away because it sounded sweet and sticky."
Writer and director David Swift wanted to trim this movie by about twenty minutes and rearrange some scenes (most notably the acquisition of the doll in the town bazaar sequence). But producer Walt Disney, who had fallen in love with this movie by watching the dailies, would not allow it, and Swift did not have final-cut privileges.
This marks the first of six movies Hayley Mills made during her five-year contract with Walt Disney Studios.
"Reverend Paul Ford: We looked for the good in them, and we found it, didn't we?"
"Pollyanna: [after Jimmy Bean jumps out of the tree and scares her] Why don't you come out of the front door like normal people? Jimmy Bean: They won't let us. I can come out anytime I want with my tree. Pollyanna: You could also fall and hurt yourself badly. You shouldn't play in trees. Jimmy Bean: That's stupid. Don't you believe in God? Pollyanna: [offended] Of course I do! But what's that got to do with it? Jimmy Bean: He grew it there, didn't He? So I can climb it anytime I want. Pollyanna: You're much too young to go around discussing things you don't know anything about. [coolly walks away] Jimmy Bean: [chasing after her] He did too! Why else would it be there? Pollyanna: Shows you're very juvenile. Jimmy Bean: You aren't so much, you girl! 'Sides, I'm something you can't be. I'm an orphan. Pollyanna: [exaggerated patience] Go away from me, please, little boy. Jimmy Bean: [mimicking her] Go away from me, please, little boy! Pollyanna: [finally losing her cool] What is it you want? Jimmy Bean: [suddenly all smiles] I wanna go fishin'! You wanna come along?"
