Donna Mills Barbara Hershey, Beaches, 1988.   Director Garry Marshall saw Anne Archer and Donna Mills for Bette Midler’s best friend in the semi-musical soap.  But he actually tested  the possible Hershey-Midler rapport on the set of Bette’s previous Disney film,  Big Business, in 1987. Copyright © 2023 Crawley's Casting Calls. All Rights Reserved. Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU General Public License.