![]() Tranposing Porter's all-white story to a middle-class black community in the Alabama of the 1950s ( Celeste Holm is the only white costar) isn't nearly as self-conscious or gimmicky as it seems on paper. In Polly, The Cosby Show's Keshia Knight Pulliam portrays the "Glad Girl" who brings along a satchelful of happiness and optimism when she visits her wealthy aunt one summer. What they meant was that Polly did not resemble the 1960 Hayley Mills movie version of Pollyanna, which itself played fast and loose with the source material. There were those in 1989 who bellyached that Disney Television's Polly was a far from faithful adaptation of Eleanor Porter's classic novel Pollyanna.
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