By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-12 18:01:40 | Updated at 2024-12-23 08:39:36
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Juliet Mills, 83, was a top star in the 1970s.
She still looks great now as she was seen at a recent premiere with her actor husband of over 40 years, Maxwell Caulfield, 65, who was in Grease 2 with Michelle Pfeiffer.
The beauty is best known for her 1960s films like The Rare Breed and Carry On Jack.
This thespian has also worked with Hollywood greats like James Stewart and Jack Lemmon.
She then had a hit on her hands with The Nanny And The Professor.
In the 1970s this star worked on popular TV shows Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Hart To Hart.
More recently she was in a movie with Mexican siren Salma Hayek.
The pretty blonde whose sister is Hayley Mills of The Parent Trap is British.
Juliet Mills, 83, was a top star in the 1970s. Seen in 1874
The pretty blonde, right, whose sister is Hayley Mills of The Parent Trap, left, is British. Seen in 1964
Mills was born in London and her older sister is actress Hayley Mills who was in The Parent Trap.
Her parents were actors who were pals with Marlon Brando. Her godmother was actress Vivien Leigh from Gone With The Wind.
Juliet began her career as a child actress in theater.
She was in the 1942 film In Which We Serve, starring her father.
In the 1960s, she was in the film The Rare Breed with James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara, and on television series such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ben Casey and 12 O'Clock High.
The 1970s saw her in the film Avanti! (1972), in which she starred with Jack Lemmon.
In 1974 Mills starred with English actor Richard Johnson in the Italian horror film Beyond the Door.
Mills also appeared in a two-part 1978 episode of the TV series The Love Boat, playing Barbara Danver, wife of Alan Danver, played by Dan Rowan, one half of the comedy duo Rowan & Martin.
Mills wearing her engagement ring in 1961
Maureen O'Hara, left, Mills, center and James Stewart in The Rare Breed in 1966
With Jack Lemmon in Avanti! in 1972
Mills (Nanny) with Kim Richards (Prudence), Richard Long (the Professor), Trent Lehman (Butch), David Doremus (Hal) in Nanny And The Professor
Mills with Gavin Macleod, Hayley Mills and John Mills on The Love Boat in the 1980s
She is perhaps best known for starring on the American television series Nanny and the Professor.
She played Phoebe Figalilly, a nanny with magical powers.
In 1974, she won an Emmy Award for QB VII.
During the 1974–75 television season, she also had a recurring role as Dr. Claire Hanley on NBC's Born Free.
In 1980, Mills returned to the stage, starring in The Elephant Man, with Maxwell Caulfield.
The two fell in love and they wed even though he was much younger - she is 83 and he is 65 so they have a 18 year age difference.
Mills at the Los Angeles Premiere of Paramount+'s Landman at Paramount Theatre on November 12 in Los Angeles
She has also been married to a hunky younger costar for decades - Maxwell Caulfield who was in Grease 2 with Michelle Pfeiffer
Mills and actor Russell Alquist drive off after their wedding, England, 1961
In 1999, she was cast on the daytime drama Passions as Tabitha Lenox, a witch who was burned at the stake in the 17th century.
She also guest-starred in two episodes of Hot in Cleveland as Philipa Scroggs, the mother of Joy (played by Jane Leeves).
In 2014 she worked with Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba and Pierce Brosnan in the film Some Kind Of Beautiful.
Mills has been married three times.
The first time was from 1961 to 1964, to Russell Alquist, Jr. with whom she had a son, Sean.
Her second marriage was from 1975 to 1980 to Michael Miklenda, with whom she had a second child, a daughter, Melissa.
In 1980, Mills married Maxwell Caulfield, 18 years her junior.
