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19 May 1960 (USA)
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Just wonderful entertainment! more
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A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts it's attitude with her determination to see the best in life. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 1 win
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Playing The Glad Game For Keeps
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jane Wyman | ... | Aunt Polly |
 | Richard Egan | ... | Dr. Edmond Chilton |
 | Karl Malden | ... | Reverend Paul Ford |
| Nancy Olson | ... | Nancy Furman |
 | Adolphe Menjou | ... | Mr. Pendergast |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Mayor Karl Warren |
 | Agnes Moorehead | ... | Mrs. Snow |
| Kevin Corcoran | ... | Jimmy Bean |
| Hayley Mills | ... | Pollyanna |
| James Drury | ... | George Dodds |
| Reta Shaw | ... | Tillie Lagerlof |
| Leora Dana | ... | Mrs. Paul Ford |
| Anne Seymour | ... | Mrs. Amelia Tarbell |
 | Edward Platt | ... | Ben Tarbell |
| Mary Grace Canfield | ... | Angelica |
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134 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.75 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Iceland:L |
West Germany:o.Al. |
USA:Approved (certificate #19385) (original rating) |
USA:G (re-rating) (1992) |
Australia:G |
Canada:G |
Finland:S |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U
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Roy Disney, studio business head and brother to Walt, issued thousands of "Pollyanna Photo Locket Necklaces" as a promotional item containing the famous quote attributed to Lincoln in the movie. Discovering the necklace in a gift shop while on vacation with his family, director/screenwriter David Swift called the studio to have the item recalled immediately. Lincoln never said, "When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." Swift had simply made it up.
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Errors in geography: Los Angeles smog visible in the background in the scene in the field with Reverend Ford. The story locale is turn of the century Vermont.
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Pollyanna Whittier:
I'm sorry about the dress, Aunt Polly. Mother said it was a size too big, but Father said I should be glad it wasn't a pair of boy's trousers.
Aunt Polly Harrington: Well, that's hardly anything to be glad about.
Pollyanna Whittier: Well, my father always used to say...
Aunt Polly Harrington: Yes, well, never mind what your father used to say. Pollyanna, this is going to be your new home now, and I hope you'll be very happy with me. Nancy will show you to your room.
Pollyanna Whittier: I'm very glad you sent for me, Aunt Polly. Your home is very lovely.
Aunt Polly Harrington: Thank you.
Pollyanna Whittier: It must make you awfully glad.
Aunt Polly Harrington: Glad?
Pollyanna Whittier: That you're so very rich!
[Reverend Ford starts to cough. Nancy takes Pollyanna out of the room]
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Aunt Polly Harrington: Well, that's hardly anything to be glad about.
Pollyanna Whittier: Well, my father always used to say...
Aunt Polly Harrington: Yes, well, never mind what your father used to say. Pollyanna, this is going to be your new home now, and I hope you'll be very happy with me. Nancy will show you to your room.
Pollyanna Whittier: I'm very glad you sent for me, Aunt Polly. Your home is very lovely.
Aunt Polly Harrington: Thank you.
Pollyanna Whittier: It must make you awfully glad.
Aunt Polly Harrington: Glad?
Pollyanna Whittier: That you're so very rich!
[Reverend Ford starts to cough. Nancy takes Pollyanna out of the room]
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Edited into "Disneyland: Pollyanna: Part 3 (#10.11)" (1963)
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Soundtrack:
Pollyanna's Song
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Filling the tiny, but oh so impressive feet of Mary Pickford in one of her most acclaimed silent screen classics was quite a chore for Walt Disney. But in an impressive American screen debut, Hayley Mills launched her career in a most impressive way as Pollyanna.
Pollyanna, who is now an orphan, comes to live with her aunt Polly played by Jane Wyman who is one reserved New Englander. She's the richest woman in town and pretty much everyone kowtows to her. But when the eternally optimistic Hayley Mills comes to live in that town, her infectious spirit seems to effect everyone and everything around her.
Pollyanna is one of Disney's best live action films, Mills and the rest of the cast make it believable without being maudlin. Disney gave Mills and Wyman an impressive roster of players in support that include, Donald Crisp, Leora Dana, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, James Drury, Reta Shaw, Mary Grace Canfield, and Kevin Corcoran as Mills's partner in juvenile hijinks.
Two people deserve special mention. One is Adolphe Menjou because this turned out to be his last film. He plays Mr. Prendergast the old miser who lives alone and miserable, but who softens at the warmth Pollyanna brings in his life. The second is my favorite here, Agnes Moorehead, who plays crotchety old Ms. Snow, one of those old folks who seem to enjoy being sick and miserable. Her scene at the end with Hayley Mills is the most touching of all in the film.
Pollyanna like George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life both never realizes all the good she's done in that town and like Jimmy Stewart's character faces a crisis. But all her friends rally to her in an It's A Wonderful Life type climax.
Walt Disney does a wonderful job in recreating that era before World War I in small town America, very much like The Music Man. Pollyanna is what they mean by fine family entertainment, as good now as it was when I first saw it in theaters in 1960.
In fact it might just make one curious enough to check out the Mary Pickford silent version.