Hayley Mills stole my part!

I might have been a child star, had it not been for Hayley Mills.

Back in 1959, when I was 11, I had hopes for a career in the movies. I had the looks (so my mother thought), I had the talent (so my mother believed) and I had a film agent – a man named Landor who had offices in Soho, off Wardour Street. Week after week (encouraged by my mother whose motto was ‘Persistence pays’), I turned up at Mr Landor’s door to remind