Avanti! 1972  R, 143 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews, Gianfranco Barra, Franco Angrisano, Pippo Franco, Franco Acampora, Giselda Castrini, Raffaele Mottola, Lino Coletta, Harry Ray, Guidarino Guidi, Giacomo Rizzo, Antonino Faa Di Bruno
American businessman Wendell Armbruster's (Jack Lemmon) father dies in Italy in a car crash while enjoying a liaison with his mistress. Wendell is determined to give him a proper funeral and travels to Italy where he meets Pamela (Juliet Mills), the daughter of his late father's mistress. The funeral is scheduled in three days, but the bodies are stolen from the morgue, and the vintners are holding the corpses hostage until damage caused by the crash is paid. After paying up and retrieving the bodies, Wendell and Pamela enjoy a night of skinny dipping that could result in scandal but marks the beginning of their own love affair.
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Beyond the Door 1974  R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Beyond Obsession
Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis, Robert Barrett
Cast: Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, David Colin Jr., Elizabeth Turner, Barbara Fiorini, Joan Acti, Carla Mancini, Nino Segurini, Luigi Marturano, Vittorio Fanfoni, Ted Rusoff, Robert Booth, George Montage
Jessica (Juliet Mills) is cheating on her record-producer husband (Gabriele Lavia), and her fling with the mysterious Dimitri (Richard Johnson) results in Jessica's pregnancy. But things begin to happen to Jessica and those around her even before the satanic child is born. Two sequels follow.
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The History of Mr. Polly 1949  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Cast: John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Betty Ann Davies, Gladys Henson, Diana Churchill, Edward Chapman, Shelagh Fraser, Dandy Nichols, Juliet Mills, Moore Marriott, David Horne, Edie Martin, Doris Hare
Based on H.G. Wells' novel, this story involves Alfred Polly's (John Mills) change of lifestyle after he leaves his domineering wife (Betty Ann Davies) and wanders the countryside. He finally takes a job as a handyman at a country inn and, at long last, finds true happiness.
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 The Other Sister 1999  PG-13, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Juliette Lewis, Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt, Giovanni Ribisi, Poppy Montgomery, Sarah Paulson, Linda Thorson, Joe Flanigan, Juliet Mills, Hector Elizondo
The Tate Family–perfectionist mom Elizabeth (Diane Keaton), dad Radley (Tom Skerritt), mentally challenged sister Carla (Juliette Lewis), and workaholic lesbian sister Heather (Sarah Paulson)–goes into a crisis mode when 24-year-old Carla returns from a specialized boarding school in pursuit of a life of her own. She attends a vocational school where she meets and falls for Danny as her family disagrees about Carla's potential as a mentally handicapped person.
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QB VII 1974 TV, 315 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Gries
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Leslie Caron, Lee Remick, Juliet Mills, Robert Stephens, Dan O'Herlihy, Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud, Edith Evans
Originally a TV miniseries, this story is based on Leon Uris' book and tells the story of Adam Kelno, a Polish doctor who escaped from a Nazi death camp in World War II. Being anti-Communist, he is targeted by them after the war and is accused of war crimes. Acquitted, he and his wife go to Arabia where they work to improve the health of the Arabian people. After he returns to England 20 years later, he is again maligned, this time in a book, which accuses him of conducting medical experiments on Jews. An exciting courtroom battle ensues. Great cast, especially Anthony Hopkins as the doctor. QB VII refers to the courtroom where the trial occurs (Queen's Bench, room #7).
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The Rare Breed 1966 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, Jack Elam, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., David Brian, Charles Lampkin
In the 1880s, Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) strives to introduce a new breed of short-horned Hereford cattle to the ranges of Texas. She gets help–finally–from Burnett (James Stewart).
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Till We Meet Again 1989  TV, 240 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Jarrott
Cast: Lucy Gutteridge, Courteney Cox, Mia Sara, Barry Bostwick, Michael York, Hugh Grant, Charles Shaughnessy, Bruce Boxleitner, Maxwell Caulfield, John Vickery, Juliet Mills
Based on a Judith Krantz novel, this made-for-TV miniseries follows the lives of three women as they deal with life and (several) romances in the period of 1913 to the 1950s.
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| 1. Avanti! (1972)
2. Beyond the Door (1974)
aka: Beyond Obsession
3. The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
4. Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
5. Letters from Three Lovers (1973)
6. The Other Sister (1999)
7. QB VII (1974)
8. The Rare Breed (1966)
9. Till We Meet Again (1989)
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