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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRERSunday, January 10, 1982 It's A New Hayley Mills On TV Screens tion (of marriage) crops up" she admitted. "We talk about it. I'm a little nervous of it now, having been together for six years. I honestly don't know whether it would be a good thing or not. It might have a detrimental effect on us both.

I've kind of steered clear now for so long. I'm a bit scared of it." She took sporadic roles In a few films and stuck to the theater to be near her children. "IT'S REALLY like being a Juggler trying to keep all those objects in the air," she said. "For the last six years, I've been concentrating on my family, bringing up my children, putting a lot of time and energy Into my private life. It's something for years I never did.

"I've always found it extremely difficult. I'm Interested to learn how other women manage to satisfy themselves and their careers, and also satisfy themselves as mothers. "I like to run my own life my own house, but I also want, to keep my career going." Mills' absence from the American screen has left her anxious. She'd like to be a little more active and has not received any major film offers, perhaps, she thinis, because people haven't seen, "her latest work. "Flame Trees," of course, cbuld change that.

"I want to spend more time thinking about my she said. "I've always been easygoing about it, perhaps a bit too much. People don't know what I look like. I'm quite different now. I'm a mature woman." Bay" and supposedly emerged from the film exclaiming: "I've found Pollyanna!" "My father was an enormous help," Mills said.

"If he hadn't been In the business, I wouldn't be sitting here today." A string of Disney films followed Search of the Castaways" and "Whistle Down the then the hard part began. Mills was a child in an adult world. She had no friends of her own age. Much of her life was spent Jetting from England to the States to make movies. Some stories have described her early life as "miserable," a term Mills softens.

"MY CHILDHOOD wasn't miserable. There were an awful lot of wonderful things about it, but (being a child star) does completely Isolate you from your contemporaries, and that's what I found difficult I did go through a difficult time, but I didn't have an utterly miserable childhood, and as a result I'm not neurotic now." "I wouldn't have changed what happened to me when I was 12, but I would have changed how I handled it." When Mills was 22, she married Boulting, 55, who had directed her in "The Family Way" (1966). The marriage, which lasted 10 years, provided Mills with a cloistered life. Then, in 1975, while appearing in the play "A Touch of Spring," she met Lawson, the first person she had ever really known who was her own age. Before long, they were living together.

"Every now and then the ques BY FREDERICK BURGER Knight News Service So what would you expect a sugac-sweet 12-year-old actress to than two decades after her first movie? mature 35-year-old woman, that's what. are a few lines, of course, but Hayley Mills still Is lovely. And a long way from the adolescent the world knew In all those Walt Disney films. Some things remain constant: She hasn't lost that doubting, wide-eyed quality. But while we weren't looking, Pollyanna left behind the Magic Kingdom and grew older with us.

Mills boasts two splendid sons, one from her marriage to British director Roy Boultlng, who was more than three decades her senior. Her second son was fathered by her "husband," Leigh Lawson, the villainous seducer in Roman Polanski's "Tess." They've lived together for six years, but Mills says she is afraid to commit herself to another marriage. hasn't seen much of lately. Two years ago she did a Boat" episode, and last April she. was the host of a Disney show on the history of animation.

There was a string of early 1970s foreign films that sometimes show up on late-night television. hotel. The drawback was the heat: Kenya, smack on the equator, suffers from temperatures exceeding 100 degrees, particularly blistering for the English. "It was grueling to work," Mills conceded, "but it is dry heat. So it's much more bearable than it is In Miami." The cast also had to rise at dawn for the dally hour-long trip to the set.

"NAIROBI IS a small city," Mills said. "Within five minutes, you leave the city limits and you're immediately in the open country, with lions and giraffes and wildebeests. We had one week when we went out on safari and had to sleep under canvas. I really enjoyed that. I'd always been drawn to Kenya.

I'd been there about 10 years ago when my father (actor John Mills) was filming. I arrived Just in time for a safari with my parents." Mills' Involvement in "Flame Trees" was something of a natural. It was produced by John Hawksworth, of "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "The Duchess of Duke Street" fame. Hawksworth produced Mills' first film, "Tiger Bay" (1958). She landed the part because her father was in the movie.

Mills fit the role perfectly of a youth who witnesses a murder. At the time, she was 12. Two years later, the world discovered her when Disney released "Pollyanna." That role had quirky origins. Disney's wife, while visiting London, saw Mills in "Tiger HAYLEY MILLS: Pollyanna is grown up. they survived.

So there's a parallel with America." Despite the desolate look of the film, location life wasn't all that tough, since the cast and crew slept on clean sheets In a Nairobi Brenda On The Road Brenda Lee, no novice at performing with big bands, recently worked with the Alabama her 70s and the film's technical consultant. Mills plays Tilly Grant, the mother of a preteen daughter (Holly Alrd) and the wife of an ambitious businessman (David Robb) who sets out to make a fortune growing coffee in Africa. "I HAVEN'T done anything like this recently," Mills says from her home near London. "I read the book and some of the rough-draft scripts. I really liked the story and the fact that It's based on real people.

I was also happy to do something in television. Twice before, when I almost embarked on a series, my own domestic situation kind of reared up and got in the way. Those times I had a baby. I managed not to do that this time. "It's different from a lot of things you see on television.

It's lovely in scope. There's no violence in It whatever. There's PRIMARILY, THOUGH, she has been acting on the stage in England, thank you, and devoting VJargexhunks of her time to her children: "I didn't want them to grow up like weeds In a garden!" "Now that Crispian, 12, and 'Jason, 6, are school age, Mills is ''taking her acting career a bit 'j more seriously, and the colonies are about to see her return to the screen, albeit the small one, in a big way. she's starring in Flame Trees of Thlka," the season premiere of PBS' "Master-piece Theatre." The seven-part series will run for an hour on consecutive Sunday nights. It took 13 weeks of location work to shoot the film, which was well received when shown on British television a few months Pops orchestra in Birmingham, Ala.

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