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Mildred finally died an unnatural death one summer when Mia was six and the family was aboard a ship. Recalls her mother, "I said to Mia, 'I tell you what we're going to do. We're going to drown Mildred.' So we theoretically put Mildred overboard into the Irish Sea, and we drowned her. We never did see Mildred again." Not in that form, anyway...
...Even in Mia's childhood, moviemaking was a global business. The nine Farrows trooped from Los Angeles to Spain, then on to London, where a series of tragedies began. "You can't be Irish without knowing the world is going to break your heart before you're 40," goes the Gaelic lament. For Mia the time was halved. Although the Farrow family life was chaotic and neurotic, there were still close alliances within its framework. In London at '13, she learned that her brother Michael, with whom she had been closest, had been killed in a private-plane crash...
...visited her mother?then playing on Broadway in Never Too Late. "It was while I was-there that my father died. That was a very big blow." John Farrow's reputation as a roistering, reckless womanizer conflicted sharply with the strict, militant Catholicism he displayed at home. But Mia accepted what confounded his colleagues. "He was priest and lover, powerful and incompetent, strong and weak, a poet and a sailor. He was a very complicated man and I loved him very much." And her mother? "Well . . . like . . . my father was strict, and she was his wife...
...immediately after John's death," recalls Maureen O'Sullivan, "that Mia found herself a role in an off-Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest, which led to a part in a television show that we thought was dreadful. We all sat around and said, 'Now who's going to tell her?' We didn't tell her because she thought she was pretty horrible herself...
...producers of Peyton Place saw more in Mia than she saw in herself. For two years as Allison MacKenzie, Mia made the soap opera one long disaster aria and attracted the attention of millions of viewers?including Frank Sinatra. It was 1964?a very good year for long-haired swingers and toupeed singers. The way the public pop-psyched it out, at 19, she was looking for a father; at 48, he was looking for his youth. Their life became about as secluded as an airport. The couple took the most curious romantic cruise since the owl and the pussycat...