Top billed cast

1. 

   Hayley Mills

   Pollyanna

2. 

   Jane Wyman

   Aunt Polly

3. 

   Richard Egan

   Dr. Edmond Chilton

4. 

   Karl Malden

   Reverend Paul Ford

5. 

   Nancy Olson

   Nancy Furman

6. 

   Adolphe Menjou

   Mr. Pendergast

7. 

   Donald Crisp

   Mayor Karl Warren

8. 

   Agnes Moorehead

   Mrs. Snow

9. 

   Kevin Corcoran

   Jimmy Bean

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on 2020-09-12

Forty years after Mary Pickford made her successful version of Pollyanna, based on the children’s book and a play, Walt Disney turned his creative team to the task. Unless you are a fan or a student of silent movies, you will probably find this newer version more entertaining.

Hayley Mills shines as the cheerful child who teaches an entire town to play the optimistic aGlad Game, and she is bubbly and cute enough to pull it off. I enjoyed the humor and the pace of the story. Not a lot was left off, as it was in the short one hour long silent film.

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$2,500,000.00

Revenue
$3,750,000.00

Keywords

• small town
• based on novel or book
• friends
• orphan
• vermont
• tween girl
• child protagonist
• 1900s
• pollyanna