![]() ![]() ![]() The best known film adaptation, of which there were many, was produced by Walt Disney in 1960 and starred child actress Hayley Mills, who won an Oscar for her role. The book was such a success upon publication that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up in 1915. The title character of this bestselling children's classic, Pollyanna, was a young orphan so sunny in spirit her name has become a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook. Porter offers an enlightening journey into the world of a childs innocence, whose positive energy has the mystical power to alleviate even the bleakest social. The film won Hayley Mills an Academy Juvenile Award. Mills starred in the 1960 movie adaptation Pollyanna, alongside Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. ![]() Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece, illustrated by Stockton Mulford. Porter’s classic of children’s literature. ![]()
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