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5 unusual facts about Millie Perkins


Fair Lawn High School

Millie Perkins (born 1938), actress, played the title role in the 1959 movie The Diary of Anne Frank.

Gaston Baty

The second film version, made in 1963, starred Millie Perkins as Dulcinea, and was released in the U.S. as The Girl from La Mancha.

Lorna Raver

On September 19, 2006, she began appearing as Rebecca Kaplan (previously played by Millie Perkins) on CBS's The Young and the Restless.

Millie Perkins

By 1978 Perkins was sufficiently far off the Hollywood radar that the Screen Actors Guild had her on their inactive list and that September the Hollywood column "Ask Dick Kleiner" responded to the query: "What ever happened to Millie Perkins?" with "Millie Perkins died recently"; a letter from Perkins herself resulted in a January 1979 retraction by Kleiner, although the columnist maintained: "almost everyone in Hollywood believes that Perkins died."

In 1976, Millie Perkins moved to Jacksonville, Oregon with her two daughters by Robert Thom: Lillie and Hedy; in 1977, People magazine reported that Perkins "conducts a drama-therapy workshop every Tuesday night in her living room and often speaks to high school drama groups in the area".


The Witch Who Came from the Sea

--stars in billing order-->Millie Perkins
Lonny Chapman
Vanessa Brown
Peggy Feury
Jean Pierre Camps
Mark Livingston
Rick Jason
Roberta Collins


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