Hayley Mills is sooooo thin in this. The one shot of her on the patio where she's wearing a low-cut dress, you can see her bones sticking out. She was frighteningly skinny in this.
Yeah. She looked terribly bony in this movie. Not a good look. Her face was beautiful, though.
shareI was thinking the exact same thing! In one shot, you can see her back and it's extremely boney. I wanted to see if she ever mentioned anything about an eating disorder, like Sandra Dee had.
shareYes, the dangerously thin Hayley Mills was going through the anorexic phase during that time in her career.
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"I wanted to see if she ever mentioned anything about an eating disorder, like Sandra Dee had."
There were other actresses of that time who had anorexia before they even knew what it was. I think Sally Field may have. Susan Dey did definitely.
Yes but its quite rare for someone to have an eating disorder for a short time and then go back to normal.
Hayley would have only been about 24 when she made this film, however (prior to this) she'd been making films since she was a child. Its very common for women to lose a lot of their puppy fat as they get into their early twenties. Sure, she had probably gone on some kind of diet - but she had children not long after this film was made so I dare say she gained weight and then never tried to shed it again - hence why we now imagine her being more rounder faced.
If I remember she was a little "chubby" (don't kill me! you know H'wood standards) during "That Darn Cat" era. But that's just normal teenage chub we all go through, but I think because of the Hollywood effect she got a complex from it. Too bad. She was, is and ALWAYS will be so beautiful!
shareHayley did struggle with bulimia in her teens and early 20s. Look at the difference between "The Trouble With Angels" (1966) and compare her weight in that to "The Family Way" (1967), not even a year later - a huge difference and a lot of weight loss. You can really see in the bathtub scene of the latter film. Not long before "Endless Night" she married her companion, the much older director Roy Boulting, and in 1974 had her first child - and that is what compelled her to conquer her eating disorder. She was healthier in her late twenties than she had been in previous years.
sharePainfully thin in this. But you only really tell it from certain shots. She hid it well.
shareThat puts a finger on it. I very recently watched Gypsy Girl, and she has the same girlish look as she did in The Parent Trap and other Disney films. I was suprised at her first scene in this movie--she looks old. Bony people look old. She looks strikingly like she did 20 years later in Good Morning, Miss Bliss.
shareIt's funny because in comparison to Twisted Nerve, Hayley looks fuller weight-wise in Endless Night, and that is saying something. I saw her in TN and was stunned at how skinny she was. Her eating disorder was really in full force; she looked so gangly and fragile. :(
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Yes, it's just terrible. You can see the bones sticking out of her chest/breast in a couple of shots. I also watched Twisted Nerve and she is the same in that movie also; her legs are like matchsticks.
I enjoyed both movies though.
I didn't even notice her being thin. Her face is so beautiful I really just gawk at her.
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