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A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her indominatable will to see the good side of even the worst situations and bring it out for the betterment of all.
Its the early twentieth century. Preteen Pollyanna Whittier (Hayley Mills) has led a simple life as part of a church family, her parents former missionaries, with her father now a minister. Following the deaths of her parents, Pollyanna is sent to live with her wealthy maternal spinster aunt, Polly Harrington (Jane Wyman), in the town of Harrington, founded by the Harrington family. Pollyanna had never met her aunt before arriving in Harrington. Polly feels an obligation to the family name, and as such controls almost every aspect of what happens in town, which she is able to do as a Harrington company has dealings with almost every other company and person in town, she not afraid to wield that clout if anyone goes against her, especially Mayor Karl Warren (Donald Crisp). In that control, she will not allow her personal assistant/one of her maids, Nancy Furman (Nancy Olson), to be seen in public with her beau, George Dodds (James Drury), as Polly believes such behavior is disrespectful to her as Nancys employer. Polly even controls the church as Reverend Paul Ford (Karl Malden) vets his sermons through her, they always, on Pollys directive, of a fire and brimstone nature. She also took in Pollyanna solely out of obligation rather than out of kindness or love. The town orphanage, the building for which Pollys father donated to the town, is in major disrepair. Polly would rather pay money out of her own pocket to make whatever band-aid repairs to the building than to embark on a community project to raise funds for a new orphanage solely as the building has the Harrington name. As opposed to Pollys stern outlook, Pollyanna, based on the teachings of her father, tries to find the good in everything and everyone. These someones include perhaps the two most disliked people in town, recluse Mr. Pendergast (Adolphe Menjou), the towns children believing he having other children who have trespassed on his property imprisoned in his basement, and disagreeable Mrs. Snow (Agnes Moorehead), who thinks more about dying than living. But the toughest nut for Pollyanna to crack may be her Aunt Polly, with her singular focus on control over the town to her standards and morals. Pollyanna may get some help in the matter of her aunt by Mayor Warrens nephew, Dr. Edmond Chilton (Richard Egan), a former resident who now lives in Baltimore, who is back in town for the first time in five years on a vacation, and who was once Pollys beau.
Jane Wyman
Aunt Polly
Hayley Mills
Pollyanna
Richard Egan
Dr. Edmond Chilton
Karl Malden
Reverend Paul Ford
Nancy Olson
Nancy Furman
Adolphe Menjou
Mr. Pendergast
Donald Crisp
Mayor Karl Warren
Agnes Moorehead
Mrs. Snow
Kevin Corcoran
Jimmy Bean
James Drury
George Dodds
Reta Shaw
Tillie Lagerlof
Leora Dana
Mrs. Paul Ford
Anne Seymour
Mrs. Amelia Tarbell
Edward Platt
Ben Tarbell
Mary Grace Canfield
Angelica
Jenny Egan
Mildred Snow
Gage Clarke
Mr. Murg
Ian Wolfe
Mr. Neely
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