Forever Young by Hayley Mills

 A poignant memoir by this actress whose father was a famous actor, and mother was a playwright, and she was signed by Walt Disney to a multi-film contract at age twelve. She describes both an exciting life filled with celebrity and celebrities but also haunted with the anguish and typical insecurities of an adolescence spent alternating between intense months of film making and then returning to a boarding school where she was often behind academically and out of sync with her schoolmates. This memoir is also filled with generous and admiring portrayals of many of the accomplished people she worked with, or met at parties and events she attended. Her peripatetic life sounded glamorous but was clearly also exhausting for a young girl who enjoyed spending alone time riding her pony in the English countryside. Her iconic film, The Parent Trap with its infectious song, let's Get Together, yeah, yeah, yeah remains a pleasant memory from my childhood, and I enjoyed reading this memoir.