Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Hayley Mills was one of Hollywood’s earliest child superstars, appearing in a host of Disney classics in the Sixties – but she’s revealed that a “crook” helped her lose much of her fortune. Mills, 80, shared her experiences with money on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud Podcast, where she remembered the earliest days of her fame. As a child, Mills signed a lucrative deal with Disney to star in a number of movies, among them The Parent Trap (1961), That Darn Cat! (1965) and In Search of the Castaways (1962). Mills said that at the peak of her celebrity she was encouraged to put her earnings into a trust by a solicitor named Stanley Passmore, who had previously worked with Mills’s actor father Sir John Mills. “Stanley also advised Daddy, and not very well,” she told Brandreth, who added: “I do know the …