WWTD 049 - Pollyanna: Hayley Brando

It has occurred to the We Want The D team that perhaps we neglected to give Hayley Mills her due back when talking about The Parent Trap all those episodes ago. Watching this ingenue perform in her debut Disney role as the titular Pollyanna was something of an awakening for Vicky, Nolan and Jill. Pollyanna doesn't just fall firmly into the plucky, optimistic camp of the Disney Orphan, she damn near defines it. But the true feat is handling such a sweet, saccharine role, and making the audience fall in love with her just as hard as the rest of the town of Harrington, and Mills handles it no problem. And sure, maybe it's easy to fall in love with Pollyanna when the rest of the cast is made up of beautiful-but-frigid spinsters, hellfire spouting priests, sour-faced maids, prism-loving bachelors, and calves-foot jelly. But for those of you have yet to watch this film, we dare you to take this journey with us and NOT fall in love with the plucky Anne of Green Gables--oops, we mean Pollyanna.