One of the several ingenue actresses of the era, Hayley Mills was always too much the “girl next door”, despite having all the attributes, because everyone around her nurtured and maintained the image (like they did with Julie Andrews) — and not the least because her father wouldn’t let her play the title role in Lolita.
That’s not to say she wasn’t beautiful, both as a young girl and then a teenager.
And in color:
And surprise surprise, she turned out to be a gorgeous older woman, too.
That was her in her sixties, and not in the Sixties.
Lovely.
