Mia Farrow says Joan Crawford was weird to her!

Mia is bitch.

Joanie wanted some young snatch!

I think the story checks out. I bet Crawford WAS scary at that time. She probably had designs on Mia and/or maybe her mother too.

Did Mia refuse to eat Joan's "rare" steak?

[quote]Mia is bitch.

Unlike sweet-as-pie Joan.

Joan looks 👀 like she’s going to eat her alive

Reminds me of the story Joan Rivers told of meeting Crawford at a party and Crawford eyeing her and saying "I never had kosher before".

Joan's sexual appetite was something else. She allegedly made a pass at Marilyn Monroe and was turned down.

Lez be friends!

I would love to see that cut scene with Joan and Van from Rosemary's Baby

I'm reading Farrow's interview with Cole Escola. She did not like B.D. Hyman.

FARROW: I actually made Death on the Nile first, but she had worked with my father when I was 12, and we were all in Spain, and she had a very disagreeable daughter named B.D. who was my age.

Do you know who else had a disagreeable daughter? Maureen Sullivan. And her name wasn't Tisa, either.

Bitch.

I don't care, I'm always team Mia.

#TeamWoody

[quote]MIA: But in the end, B.D. betrayed her mother in a horrible way, wrote a trashy book and stuff.

Amateur.

Fabulous interview! Thanks for posting, OP!

They are/were both nuts, but JOAN was far nuttier!

I hope Joan didn’t try to put the moves on light-in-the-loafers Van.

This was a fun interview. Wish we got some more stories about george cukor.

That waif would have been snapped in two if she tried scissoring with Crawford.

Joan and Van’s small scene was cut from Rosemary’s Baby.

Yet she boinked Woody Allen. Repeatedly.

Okay, Mia. 🙄

Only the eldergays here can appreciate how huge a star Mia Farrow was in the ‘60s.

I love Mia. I was binge watching some of her films last week for no particular reason. I watched "The Haunting of Julia", "Secret Ceremony", and "See No Evil"—all great horror/thriller films. I especially love "The Haunting of Julia" and "See No Evil", both of which have fantastically creepy atmospheres, and Farrow gives her signature vulnerable performances in both of them.

I love old cock, not old cooch.

r24: I agree... those two films are absolutely amazing in terms of atmosphere, and fully deserve to be DL classics!

Crawford said just standing next to Clark Gable gave her "twinges of a sexual urge beyond belief." Clearly that urge was unmatched until she stood next to Mia.

Peyton Place. Loved her.

Mia was great as passive-aggressive harridans in Hannah and Her Sisters and Husbands and Wives.

I think a scene of Joan and Van would have thrown things off, even if they were non-spoken cameos—I doubt they traveled in the same circles, even if Van may have escorted ladies to social evens(Cesar “Butch” Romero would have been a better choice, as he had a reputation for being available for such outings.). It might have been more fun for them to appear in the coven—I have problem believing in them as devil worshippers, but again, their recognizability as stars might have been distracting. Having familiar character actors like Hope Summers and Patsy Kelly felt just right—they seemed like the ordinary people one runs into, but would never imagine as witched. Patsy Kelly’s Laura-Louise is particularly amusing, a disagreeable old buddy they put up with because they can give her servile tasks to do.

R23, I think entered my consciousness when I was about 7 years old and she was Daisy Buchanan in David Merrick’s film production of The Great Gatsby with Robert Redford, who I was already aware of because of Butch & Sundance. (Popular culture was still so monolithic back then.) I didn’t see the film but was aware of the promotion and the general response that it was “beautiful but boring.” I remember my mother and grandmother went to see it, I think, and had little to say about it.

By the end of the ‘70s, Farrow’s film career had bottomed out with more turkeys like Hurricane but within a few years’ time she completely reinvented herself through her work (and relationship) with Woody Allen for which, oddly, she was always praised but never honoured for despite a number of other actors often being nominated and often winning for their work in his films. It was like there was always a bias against her.

But yes, of course, she was a big star in the ‘60s and an endless object of fascination in the press.

That was a great interview! I love her movie Widow’s Peak with Natasha Richardson and Joan Plowright. It’s on Tubi.

Mia was more of an image than a big star, besides Rosemary’s Baby and brief marriage to Sinatra, there wasn’t much more than magazine photos. And RB would have been a hit no matter who was in it because it was a best selling book and well made film.

[quote] Maureen Sullivan.

Oh, dear.

I remember after Rosemary's Baby and The Graduate, Mia and Dustin Hoffman, as the hottest young stars in the world, were teamed up for John Loves Mary. It was a huge and totally forgotten bomb. Even I didn't see it. Did anyone here?

Mommie/Mia, here we go again!

[quote] Mia was more of an image than a big star, besides Rosemary’s Baby and brief marriage to Sinatra, there wasn’t much more than magazine photos.

Peyton Place was huge.

[quote]The uncomfortable Farrow then “made up a lie that I wasn’t feeling very well and I didn’t want to give her any diseases."

Mia, dear, Joan was the one who wanted to give you diseases....like herpes and syphilis.

Bitch, please. I'll show you weird...

R38, she wasn’t on Peyton Place very long.

R36, I saw as much as I could stand of “John and Mary.” About 15 minutes.

[quote] she wasn’t on Peyton Place very long.

Because she became a breakout star on a huge series.

All of them bitches...

Me Tarzan, you Joan.

At least there’s a true Queen Bee in that photo: Miss Van Johnson.

Now if he’d ask Mia up to his apartment… 🤔

Did it need dusting, R45?

Wait! WHAT? Maureen O'Sullivan is Mia Farrow's mother? When the hell did that happen and why didn't anyone tell ME?!!

Funny Mia notes Joan's drinking, as both Farrow parents were heavy drinkers...

I would have liked to have been Joan's friend back then. Her correspondence was so wide and welcoming.

[quote]Her correspondence was so wide and welcoming.

So, R48?

Was Joan a red Weirdo?

[quote]Wait! WHAT? Maureen O'Sullivan is Mia Farrow's mother? When the hell did that happen and why didn't anyone tell ME?!!

It happened at Mia's birth.

Apparently your friends don't include any DL eldergays. We all knew that from the get-go.

Mia is always a victim.

...ever since she had that baby by Satan.

Looks like Mia finally made it to Oh, Mary!

Interesting fact I discovered tonight: Ingmar Bergman originally wanted Mia Farrow to play Anna, the peasant servant woman, in his film "Cries and Whispers " in 1972.

She is nominated for a Tony. I assume she’ll be in attendance at Sunday’s award ceremonies.