Cinecon Legacy Award Honoree Juliet Mills Has acted for nine decades of film and television. You read it correctly. Nine! Mills made his debut on the screen in just 11 weeks and was born into England’s foremost actor-one immediately subordinate in a family created from his Oscar-winning father John Mills. He helped throw his daughter in her first film, 1942’s “where we earn”, and of course played his own daughter.
“It was truly a propagation film for the Second World War. Noel Coward, of course, collaborated and wrote it and played in it, and it was David Lean’s directorial debut,” explained Juliet Mills. “And so that was my debut too. And in fact I am invoiced in the role list. It says” Baby Juliet. ”
While she would grow up with her eyes always on the foot lights, Mill’s dreams were initially focused on another type of performance art.
“I was at Ballet School. I realized that I would never be the solo swan in ‘Swan Lake.’ I would be in Corps de Ballet It was very lucky.
Mills first found a happy blow that nabbed a role in the John Gield-directed “Five Finger exercise” at London’s West End. In just 16, the actress had his big break, and when it was transferred to Broadway in 1960, Mills received a Tony nomination. “I didn’t even know what a Tony was. I didn’t. And my parents didn’t make a big fuss about it or anything. So I wasn’t there for the award or anything,” she recalled.
A series of films followed – of which several threw her opposite some of the biggest names on the planet. At the same time, her younger sister Hayley achieved children’s star with “Pollyanna” and “The Parent Trap.” The latter of the participated Brian Keith and Maureen O’Hara, who would also be thrown into “The Rare Breed” with Juliet, whose mother would also depicted by O’Hara.
“It seems” the rare breed “never talked about, and it is a movie that I have always been very proud of and really liked to do it then, of course. I recently saw it at TCM, and that’s really good,” said Mills, who added that O’Hara had previously played his mother in a live TV Production of “Mrs Miniver” in 1960. “I kept in touch with her, always, since then, and in fact I saw her was at the TCM movie festival, and she came over from Ireland, where she lived for a long time, and I saw her. We had tea at Roosevelt -Hotellet. She was still so beautiful.
In the “The Rare Rase” crew was also the legendary James Stewart, who Mills described as “Creme de la Creme” for the veteran performers with whom she had the opportunity to act with. “My father was so jealous that I made a Western with Jimmy Stewart. He always wanted to make a Western, and suddenly I’m out in California, rides on my horse and continued,” laughing Mills.
Elder Mill’s sister was consistently thrown on film and television, and silently built a star career that included guest places in popular series such as “The Man from Uncle”, “Ben Casey” and “12 at high.” She would move permanently to the states to take the lead in “Nanny and the Professor”, Hitsitcom that made her known for generations as a whimsical, magical governor.
“I played in London with Tom Courtenay,” she bends to conquer “… It ran for almost a year, but I was given the opportunity to do a test for ‘Nanny and the professor’ when I was in the game in London. David Gerber, the producer, come and saw the piece and said, ‘Will you do a screen test for this series?’ And I did it, and I got the part, and then they released me out of the game for three weeks to make the pilot, “Mills remembered and added that the series actually shot two pilots with two different male joints -” I can’t remember (the original actor’s) name, lucky I can’t. ”
“And after the game was clear … I came here to do the show. I thought I would only make 13 episodes of a half -hour series, and it continued for 54 episodes. At what time I fell in love with California and the sunshine and life in California … I started getting more work here than I did there.”
In the mid-70s, she was an Emmy winner (for her role in the acclaimed miniseries “QB VII”), enough known from the masses to always earn the “special guest star” credit when she showed up on the TV screens. In 1972 she played the lead role in one of Billy Wilders Twilight-ERA movies, “Avanti!” (More about that next week, stay up to date). She also continued to show up on stage and was in a production of “The Elephant Man” in 1980, where she was thrown opposite a dashed young actor named Maxwell Caulfield (it “Fat 2” cool rider).
“The actor who plays the elephant man… he does not have makeup or anything. It’s all illusion. And maxwell played the elephant man. He was 20 years old at the time, and absolutely dreamy looking, and yet he turns elyte in fontfant man – this defant man – this. Play was so brilliant. So that was definitely one of my favorite parts, “Mills related. “We had these wonderful roles and we toured in Florida. We actually rehearsed in New York on the building’s 45th floor above the Minskoff -Theater on Times Square. We used to see the sun go down every night over the Hudson River and it was very romantic. And I think we bind on all levels.”
The couple got married in 1980 and they will celebrate the 45th anniversary on December 2. Mills was 39 to Caulfield’s 21 when they were Wed. “He’s wonderful to me. He treats me like a queen. We have been married 45 years this year. It’s a pretty miracle. I can’t believe it’s so long,” shared Mills and added with a shine tone, “and so many said it would not hold.”
In the following years, Mills has continued to be a regular presence on screens large and small. Some of her most prominent credits have included “The Other Sister”, “some kind of beautiful”, “passions” (which she got one day Emmy Nod), “Hot in Cleveland”, and a guest arch on “Grey’s anatomy.”
“I would do much more of (‘Gray’s’ section). But, you know, the author’s strike came along, and instead of 23 episodes they only made 10. So my story went down to the toilet, so I did not do as many as I should have made episodes. But I liked to work with that show, I have to say,” Mills said, added to the fact that it was to be the case (it is to be a one to be to the right to be done But what she would really like to do is get rid of Taylor Sheridan.
“All the wonderful show on Netflix he writes and directs half of them himself … writes them all himself. And I don’t know how he does, but Maxwell made a guest place at ‘Landman,’ Which is one of my favorite programs. I just love it, ”Mills said.
At Labor Day Weekend, August 29-September-September-September, Mills will be honored with Legacy Award (introduced by his spouse) at Cinecon Film Festival At The Writers Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles, along with a screening of the above “The Rare Breed”, which Mills “is looking forward to seeing the big screen.” For tickets and information, visit Cinecon Website. Read our features on other honorees Mamie van Doren and Ann-Margretwhich will also participate.
And Taylor Sheridan, if you read this: Juliet Mills is ready for “Farmers. “
