

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
Acting
Hayley Mills' Oscar-worthy grin that launched a thousand 'glad games'
Production
Glossy Hollywood Vermont that never existed but should have
Costume
1900s white dresses impossibly clean for tree-climbing chaos

Director
David Swift
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hayley Mills beat out 300+ girls and won a special Juvenile Oscar; her real-life father John Mills appears briefly as a villager.
The term 'Pollyanna' became shorthand for blind optimism so aggressively that the 1913 novel's author Eleanor Porter spent years defending her heroine's complexity.
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