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* TropeNamer: For ThePollyanna of course.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: The intent was for an American girl to play Pollyanna, but they struggled to find someone suitable. Walt Disney's wife Lillian saw Creator/HayleyMills in ''Film/TigerBay'' and convinced Walt to fly over to London to meet her.
* ActorAllusion: Reta Shaw played a cook in ''Film/MaryPoppins'' too.
* BoxOfficeBomb: With a 2 and a half million dollar budget, the 1960 version of ''Pollyanna'' from [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney]] was expected to gross $6 million. It didn't make it halfway.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Naturally Napa Valley and Sonoma County doubled for Vermont.
* CreatorCameo: The director has one as a fireman shooing a boy off a ladder - after the boiler accident at the orphanage.
* TheDanza: Nancy Olson as Nancy Furman.
* DawsonCasting: Creator/HayleyMills is an aversion, as she was only thirteen when she played Pollyanna - who is twelve in the book. However Mary Pickford played her in a film at ''twenty eight''.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Inverted. The director wanted to cut a load of footage - including Pollyanna getting the doll at the bazaar. Walt Disney however had fallen in love with the movie and would not allow a single scene to be cut.
* StarMakingRole: Hayley Mills' performance in the title role of the 1960 version won her the Juvenile Oscar and helped make her a child star in the 60s.
* StillbornFranchise: The book had sequels, but the bad box office reception to the Disney version ensured '''it''' wouldn't.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: The intent was for an American girl to play Pollyanna, but they struggled to find someone suitable. Walt Disney's wife Lillian saw Creator/HayleyMills in ''Film/TigerBay'' and convinced Walt to fly over to London to meet her.
* ActorAllusion: Reta Shaw played a cook in ''Film/MaryPoppins'' too.
* BoxOfficeBomb: With a 2 and a half million dollar budget, the 1960 version of ''Pollyanna'' from [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney]] was expected to gross $6 million. It didn't make it halfway.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Naturally Napa Valley and Sonoma County doubled for Vermont.
* CreatorCameo: The director has one as a fireman shooing a boy off a ladder - after the boiler accident at the orphanage.
* TheDanza: Nancy Olson as Nancy Furman.
* DawsonCasting: Creator/HayleyMills is an aversion, as she was only thirteen when she played Pollyanna - who is twelve in the book. However Mary Pickford played her twelve-year-old Pollyanna in a film at ''twenty eight''.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Inverted. The director wanted to cut a load of footage - including Pollyanna getting the doll at the bazaar. Walt Disney however had fallen in love with the movie and would not allow a single scene to be cut.
* StarMakingRole: Hayley Mills' performance in the title role of the 1960 version won her the Juvenile Oscar and helped make her a child star in the 60s.
* StillbornFranchise: The book had sequels, but the bad box office reception to the Disney version ensured '''it''' wouldn't.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Patty Duke auditioned for the lead role in the film.
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* StarMakingRole: Hayley Mills' performance in the title role of the 1960 version won her the Juvenile Oscar and helped make her a child star in the 60s.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Patty Duke auditioned for the lead role in the film.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: The intent was for an American girl to play Pollyanna, but they struggled to find someone suitable. Walt Disney's wife Lillian saw Hayley Mills in ''Tiger Bay'' and convinced Walt to fly over to London to meet her.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: The intent was for an American girl to play Pollyanna, but they struggled to find someone suitable. Walt Disney's wife Lillian saw Hayley Mills Creator/HayleyMills in ''Tiger Bay'' ''Film/TigerBay'' and convinced Walt to fly over to London to meet her.



* DawsonCasting: Hayley Mills is an aversion, as she was only thirteen when she played Pollyanna - who is twelve in the book. However Mary Pickford played her in a film at ''twenty eight''.

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* DawsonCasting: Hayley Mills Creator/HayleyMills is an aversion, as she was only thirteen when she played Pollyanna - who is twelve in the book. However Mary Pickford played her in a film at ''twenty eight''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Doesn't Pollyanna have [[Film/TheParentTrap a twin sister]]?
** [[{{Series/Bewitched}} Endora]] is awfully obsessed with death.
** [[Film/MaryPoppins Mrs Brill]] is now cooking for Aunt Polly instead of the Banks family.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: The intent was for an American girl to play Pollyanna, but they struggled to find someone suitable. Walt Disney's wife Lillian saw Hayley Mills in ''Tiger Bay'' and convinced Walt to fly over to London to meet her.



* DawsonCasting: Hayley Mills is an aversion, as she was only thirteen when she played Pollyanna - who is twelve in the book. However Mary Pickford played her in a film at ''twenty eight''.



* FakeNationality: British child actress Hayley Mills playing the daughter of two Americans. Although as we don't know much about her father, one could assume he was British in the film.
* StillbornFranchise: The book had sequels, but the bad box office reception to the Disney version ensured '''it''' wouldn't.

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* FakeNationality: British child actress Hayley Mills playing StillbornFranchise: The book had sequels, but the daughter of two Americans. Although as we don't know much about her father, one could assume he was British in bad box office reception to the film.Disney version ensured '''it''' wouldn't.
* TropeNamer: For ThePollyanna of course.

* StillbornFranchise: The book had sequels, but WhatCouldHaveBeen: Patty Duke auditioned for the bad box office reception to lead role in the Disney version ensured '''it''' wouldn't.film.
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* ActorAllusion: Reta Shaw played a cook in ''Film/MaryPoppins'' too.


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* CaliforniaDoubling: Naturally Napa Valley and Sonoma County doubled for Vermont.
* CreatorCameo: The director has one as a fireman shooing a boy off a ladder - after the boiler accident at the orphanage.
* TheDanza: Nancy Olson as Nancy Furman.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Inverted. The director wanted to cut a load of footage - including Pollyanna getting the doll at the bazaar. Walt Disney however had fallen in love with the movie and would not allow a single scene to be cut.
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Doesn't Pollyanna have [[Film/TheParentTrap a twin sister]]?
** [[{{Series/Bewitched}} Endora]] is awfully obsessed with death.
** [[Film/MaryPoppins Mrs Brill]] is now cooking for Aunt Polly instead of the Banks family.
* FakeNationality: British child actress Hayley Mills playing the daughter of two Americans. Although as we don't know much about her father, one could assume he was British in the film.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: With a 2 and a half million dollar budget, the 1960 version of ''Pollyanna'' from [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney]] was expected to gross $6 million. It didn't make it halfway.
* StillbornFranchise: The book had sequels, but the bad box office reception to the Disney version ensured '''it''' wouldn't.

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