Hayley Mills (Miss Bliss) has a memoir coming out about growing up in Hollywood

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Get ready Disney fans!

Hayley Mills, star of the original 1961 family classic The Parent Trap, is opening up about her time as a child actor in the 1960s — including her memories of working with Walt Disney himself.

On Thursday, the actress exclusively shared with PEOPLE that her memoir Forever Young will be published by Grand Central Publishing on Sept. 7.

"I am so happy to be working with Gretchen Young at Grand Central who has been tremendously positive and encouraging about my writing this book. I'm also extremely excited to be releasing it in North America, the land that changed my life and became my home from home," Mills, 75, explains in an exclusive statement. "I made my first film in Great Britain with my father, at the age of twelve, but my career didn't really start until Walt Disney brought me to America for Pollyanna.

"As a young English girl playing such an American icon, I could have been met with roars of disapproval, but I quickly discovered the nation's generous spirit and I felt genuinely taken into the hearts of their filmgoers," she continues. "This was the beginning of a wonderful relationship that continues to this day. It was a very different world when I first arrived in the States and so much has changed. Writing this book has been the most marvellous opportunity to go back to those early days of wonder and confusion, to remember all the rare and exceptional people that I was lucky enough to meet and to love, and at the same time, to try and fathom the strange and fortuitous events that shaped my family's life."

Mills, the daughter of British actor Sir John Mills, was only a preteen when she got swept up in the world of Hollywood. While under Walt Disney's wing, Mills rose to stardom with roles in classic films like Pollyanna and The Parent Trap during the 1960s. She went on to win multiple awards, including a Golden Globe, multiple BAFTAs and was given the Academy Juvenile Award by Shirley Temple, the award's first recipient. (In a June 1961 New York Times review of The Parent Trap, critic Bosley Crowther praised Mills for her "delightful insouciance, dexterity and charm.")

In Forever Young, Mills shares her memories of that "wild and glamorous world", her impressions of the culture-changing film producer and how her career continued to be impacted by her childhood stardom.

"Hayley will delve intimately into her relationship with Walt Disney," reads the press release, "as well as the emotional challenges of being bound to a wholesome, youthful public image as she grew into her later teen years, and how that impacted her and her choices–including marrying a producer over 30 years her senior when she was 20!"

The description continues: "With her regrets, her joys, her difficulties, and her triumphs, this is a compelling read for any fan of classic Disney films and an inside look at a piece of real Hollywood history."

Forever Young will be published on Sept. 7.

[RetroGuy2000]

Anything about GMMB in it?

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Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

Anything about GMMB in it?

Well, we have to wait and see.

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I know that this is a dumb question, but was it ever properly explained how Miss Bliss became a teacher in the United States? I mean, Hayley Mills spoke in her natural English accent, so it's safe to assume that her character on Good Morning, Miss Bliss was supposed to be British also.

Olivia d'Abo also played a kind and caring British teacher who worked in the United States in the Disney soccer movie The Big Green. It was explained that Miss Montgomery got to America through an exchange program.

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Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

Anything about GMMB in it?

Hayley Mills talks about working on Good Morning, Miss Bliss at the 27:25 mark.

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Hayley Mills talks about working on Good Morning, Miss Bliss at the 27:25 mark.

Thanks! That was great! Loved her as Miss Bliss, and would love to see her on the reboot of SBTB. They could have her on as a retiring/now-retired teacher or something.

Sorry she felt elbowed out of the show.

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Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

Thanks! That was great! Loved her as Miss Bliss, and would love to see her on the reboot of SBTB. They could have her on as a retiring/now-retired teacher or something.

Sorry she felt elbowed out of the show.

Good Morning, Miss Bliss was clearly meant to be a starring vehicle for Hayley Mills. It probably wouldn't have made sense to keep her up in the forefront if the intent was to focus more on the kids instead of a sole teacher. Otherwise, what would've been the point in changing the name of the show to Saved by the Bell?

The only way that I could've plausibly seen Hayley Mills continue as Miss Bliss is if she was placed in the Mr. Belding role as the school principal. But, I would have to imagine that Hayley Mills would've commanded a pretty hefty paycheck. And I don't think that somebody as penny-pinching as Peter Engel would've been willing to foot the bill.

I kind of consider Miss Wentworth, who we saw in the "Running Zack" and the "Zack Tapes" episodes as the closest thing that we had to a Miss Bliss like character on Saved by the Bell.