Pollyanna | |
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Directed by | David Swift |
Screenplay by | David Swift |
Based on | Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | Jane Wyman Richard Egan Karl Malden Nancy Olson Adolphe Menjou Donald Crisp Agnes Moorehead Kevin Corcoran Hayley Mills |
Cinematography | Russell Harlan |
Edited by | Frank Gross |
Music by | Paul Smith |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Running time | 134 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.5 million[1] |
Box office | $3.75 million (US and Canadian rentals)[2] |
Pollyanna is a 1960 American comedy-drama film starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. The film was written and directed by David Swift, based on the 1913 novel Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter. The film won Hayley Mills an Academy Juvenile Award. It was the last film of actor Adolphe Menjou.
Pollyanna was Hayley Mills' first of six films for Disney, and the directorial debut of David Swift.