Mandy Miller

She now lives in the United States. Her notable roles include:. Although she did not continue her career as an adult, her films are well remembered and she recently featured in a magazine article bringing readers up to date on her life.
. dramas, making films until she was 18. This is one of her most famous roles playing Esmeralda alongside Laughton's Quasimodo. She also appeared in T.V. with Laughton where they both appeared in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".

Mandy Miller also made a single record, familiar to British people of a certain age, called Nelly The Elephant. In 1939 she went to the U.S. Louis. Her first major film was to be Hitchcock's "Jamaica Inn". musical Meet Me In St. As a result she was offered an initial seven year contract. Just some of her other famous co-stars were Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Godfrey Tearle, Thora Hird, Sam Wanamaker and Joan Carroll, one of the stars of the M.G.M. However he came around when he too found he couldn't forget her eyes so he thought she must have something.

She had lighter roles such as in Raising A Riot (1955) starring Kenneth More. When he saw the tape he was furious as he believed it was a poor choice. Valerie Hobson played the mother. Meanwhile Laughton looked at the test again and while he thought it was awful he couldn't forget her eyes. He told his business partner he was signing her and sent him the test tape. She was just as convincing in the next film Background (1952), along with the other two child actors in this film about a family breaking up due to an impending divorce. Like Mandy, this was a drama about a well-to-do middle class family. She returned to Ireland. The other leads were Jack Hawkins and Phyllis Calvert. However she met Charles Laughton who believed she had something.

She was a natural actress and put in a much praised performance in her second film, another Ealing production, Mandy (1953), playing a deaf child who's parents do not know how to cope with raising her. She performed poorly in the test. Her career tended to involve serious acting roles rather than comedy, even in her first small part in The Man In The White Suit, where she was a sad-faced little girl who helped Alec Guinness escape his pursuers. At the screen test was the actor Charles Laughton. Actually named Carman but called Mandy by her family, she was born in 1944 in Somerset, England. Initially reluctant she was persuaded to attend. British child-star who made a number of films in the fifties. At the age of 17 she was offered a screen test in London.

She came from a theatrical family and began acting at the age of 14 with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin (Ireland's National Theatre). She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. Born in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland, the famously red-headed beauty is noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. August 17, 1920), is an Irish-American film actress.

Maureen O'Hara, born Maureen FitzSimons (b. Only the Lonely (1991). Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962). The Parent Trap (1961).

The Quiet Man (1952). Rio Grande (1950). Sitting Pretty (1948). Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

This Land Is Mine (1943). The Black Swan (1942). How Green Was My Valley (1941). The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).