Such was the notoriety of the film that Farrow's place in celluloid history was immediately assured.It was while on the set of Rosemary's Baby that her first romantic setback occurred. (Mason refused to change his routine, but a week later, three bullets were fired through the door of his hotel room in Las Vegas.)At about the same time, Farrow, who spent some of her school years at a convent in Britain, was jumping from television to film. The marriage to Sinatra also introduced her to the pain of less-than-kind tabloid scrutiny. The couple also became the butt of jokes by the comedian Jackie Mason, who claimed to have received death threats after making quips about the marriage.
His name was Frank Sinatra and even though he was 30 years her senior, the couple quickly sealed their relationship by marrying in 1966. So began the romantic chronicles of Mia Farrow that over the years became as intense and traumatic as any young person would desire. Her co-star was a young Ryan O'Neal and the show made her a heroine for the American teenage generation. But while she won a huge adolescent following, there were older admirers as well.Farrow had never made a secret of her ambition to become a star as big as either of her parents and in the mid-Sixties she met a man who could most certainly offer her an entr?to the big leagues of entertainment.
The daughter of another film star, Maureen O'Sullivan (who played Jane in most of the Tarzan movies), and the Hollywood director John Farrow, she is a member of Hollywood's answer to the aristocracy - her godparents were the gossip columnist Louella Parsons and the director George Cukor.Born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow (but known to her family from the start as Mia), her career took off early when she landed the role of Alison MacKenzie in the wildly popular 1960s primetime American television soap opera Peyton Place. And Farrow knows a little too much about such things herself. Farrow has memories of her own she would surely not reawaken.Indeed it is Farrow's burden that when fans gather, it is not just her films they are thinking about. It is also the various and rather remarkable romantic calamities of her own life that fascinate, not to mention the details of quite a different trial that unfolded all the way back in 1992 and spawned more tabloid hearings than the Polanski suit against Cond?ast will ever achieve. It also marked the explosive end to her decade-long sojourn with Woody Allen.
