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Does anyone remember Mandy Miller,child star of the late 50-early 60's? I wondered what became of her and googled but no joy there. Thanks in advance.
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I remember her well. She was 60 this year! I found this:
"The sensitive-looking British child star of the fifties was born Carman Isabella Miller in 1944 but affectionately called "Mandy" practically from birth. Her father, a BBC Radio producer, took Mandy (then age 6) and her older sister to watch a film being made at Ealing Studios. Instead of her sister it was Mandy who impressed the powers-that-be at the studio commissary that day and was offered a small role in Alec Guinness' film The Man in the White Suit (1951). The little girl took to acting and eagerly signed up for classes along with dancing lessons, and found some work in commercial modeling. She achieved in the 50s what child star Hayley Mills would in popularity a decade later, except in a dramatic vein. Mandy's strong suit was definitely tearjerkers. Her finest hour in film came with the movie Mandy (1952), in which she portrayed a disturbed deaf girl called "Mandy". Other moving performances came in Background (1953), as the young product of a bitter divorce, The Secret (1954), which was a covert thriller, and Child in the House (1956), which proved to be another sob story suited to her talents.
In her final film, The Snorkel (1958) she plays a young teen who leads police to her mother's murderer. After guest shots on TV's "The Avengers" and "The Saint", she left the limelight forever. At the age of 18, Mandy moved to New York to become an au pair. She married an architect in 1965, had two children, and settled down to a welcome life of domesticity."
Hope that's useful!
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