The Farrows of Hollywood - Their Dark Side of Paradise

✍ Scribed by Marilyn Ann Moss

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, a biography of the Farrow family, charts their double lives:
As Hollywood royalty, the family created a fairy-tale public existence. But
behind that exterior lay an often dark world touched by psychological turmoil, pain, even tragedy. When John Farrow died, few people outside the
family knew the interiority of the man, the inside narrative of his family. It
wasn’t until his daughter Mia Farrow accused her partner of many years,
Woody Allen, of sexual misconduct that the Farrow family secrets slipped
into the public eye. In telling a story about Woody Allen’s behavior with his
children, Mia unwittingly revealed her own relationship with the father who
left a legacy of pain, trauma, even tragedy to his children years earlier that
continues to affect their lives and the lives of future generations of Farrows.
To understand the story Mia tells, we must first understand the teller herself,
Mia. Yet, in order to understand Mia, we must first understand her father,
John Farrow. This biography of the Farrows takes up the task of looking
fully into their lives—for history’s sake, and for the sake of stories we tell,
the stories that keep us all connected to and implicated in each other’s lives.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One
A Hollywood Family
Director’s Cut: John Farrow Gets a Reputation
Swinging on a Star: Maureen
Going Hollywood: John and Maureen Make Headlines
Twisted Bliss: At Home with the Farrows
The Lost One
Part Two
Where the Kissing Never Stops
Departures
From Princess Mia to Mama Mia
Coney Island Woody and His CinemaMia
Wounded
Conclusion: No Hollywood Ending
Appendices
Outtakes
EntitledRomance of the Little Red Devil and the Roving Lord
The Immigration Setup
Maureen Tells All
Bad Company: The Black Dahlia
Girl Talk
A Fish Tale, Featuring John Farrow
Acknowledgments
Filmographies
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Plates