Hayley Mills ‘MY DATE WITH A BEATLE'

In an extract from her new memoir, the British actress, 75, opens up about her night out with George Harrison in 1964

As soon as I walked down the stairs and saw him standing there in the hall, with his black corduroy coat, his hands thrust deep into the pockets and all that shining hair, my carefully cultivated calm vanished and my knees started to tremble.

I threw my eyes up to heaven for some fatuous reason that was lost on both of us and which I regretted the moment I’d done it!

George and I tore off together in his black E-Type Jaguar. The rain was pouring down and, when my heart had finally settled more or less into its proper place, I began to enjoy myself.

I looked at him out of the corner of my eye. He didn’t seem to mind that I had been foisted on him by my very determined mother. He reminded me of a little foal peering out from under a bearskin rug.