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.

I would so love to see Mia snatch that Tony from Sarah Snook.

I don’t like Mia, but this is the first major award she’s been up for since the Golden Globe in the early 80s. Good for her.

Sarah Snook playing all the characters just felt so gimmicky to me. It would be fun if Mia won. I think she is a fabulous actress but I also like really liked the purpose so LaTanya would be great. It would be fun to see Mia finally take home a big award after all these years.

I want to see a new meeting between adoptees Christina and Moses where they discuss their mothers.

Moses, Moses!

I’m sure Mia Farrow was the weird one

Moses isn’t right in the head. If you watch his weird YouTube videos you will see that immediately. It’s unfortunate.

I shit on everyone I ever met EXCEPT MY POOR GOOD BABIES.

You mean "nepo baby Mia Farrow."

R38 But she quit after two years.

r68 yes r41

[quote]But her unusual interactions with Crawford would peak soon after, following an invitation to the Crawford home. “Then she invited me to her apartment,” Farrow recalled. “[bold]I thought it was a party, but I arrived, and I was the only one there. [/bold]I was 17... It just had very low lighting. And there were no other guests, just Ms. Crawford and me. And I just wasn’t very comfortable. I was scared of Ms. Crawford.”'

This is prime Harvey Weinstein crap. Joan was a known predator.

Joan wanted what Frank was getting!

The two Mrs. Frank Sinatras.

Did Crawford really tell Mia it was going to be a party or did Mia just assume that?

[quote]And apparently Joan kept a flask in her jacket

Who doesn't keep a flask close by, especially when spending time with Mia?

Mother had her courage up

R36 I never saw it but just in case anyone wants to look it up, it was called John and Mary.

That flask was for medicinal purposes!

From the way she talked about it in the interview Mia just assumed it was a party. I also thought it was funny that Joan kept sending her Pepsi when Mia was still on peyton place. I wonder who else Joan was sending cases of Pepsi to durning her Pepsi ambassador years?

That bitch douched with Pepsi!

Well, Mia was part of the Pepsi Generation! And Joan, the Smirnoff generation!

Joan was more of the Mead generation.

Joan was old enough to be Mia's grandmother and she still tried to get a piece of that pussy!

Powerful, aggressive men like Frank Sinatra and Joan Crawford got very turned on by young, meek Mia.

[quote] Joan was old enough to be Mia's grandmother

Women do become grandmother's before their 39th birthday, but that's rather rare.

Joan was 41 in 1945. It was very common for people back in those days to be grandparents at 40.

HOW THE FUCK ELSE COULD I BE TO MIA FUCKING FARROW?

According to AI:

[quote] Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur) was born on March 23, 1906. While some sources suggest 1904 or 1908, the consensus and most widely accepted date is 1906.

If so, Joan was 38 when Mia was born in Feb. 1945.

Joan never tried to eat MY pussy!

r87 In Mommie Dearest Christina wrote that Joan's mother told Christina that Joan was actually born in 1904. It makes sense, given the timeline. She was a chorus girl for a few years before she signed with MGM in 1925.

Whether she was 38 or 41 when Mia was born, Joan could have been her GREAT grandmother.

"Women do become grandmother's before their 39th birthday, but that's rather rare."

Not in my family.

[quote]Christina wrote that Joan's mother told Christina that Joan was actually born in 1904.

Tina was a known liar.

I love Cole's interview - and died when he kicked it off with "Boxers or briefs?"

How old were y'all's grandmothers when they became grandmothers?. My paternal grandmother, who chopped two years off her actual age, was 49 when her oldest grandchild was born; my maternal grandmother was 51. They were born in the years between 1895 & 1902.

People got married and had kids very young back then. Being a grandparent at 40 wasn't unusual at all.

Has TMZ reported on marriage license at all or is he just saying he is married?

R96 - wrong room - thread about Aaron Rodgers is in the second door on the left.

^ “There’s a bathroom on the right.”

Mia if she had answered Joan's provocative call, "I'm in the bedroom, honey, why don't you join me?"

Mia was the original Felicity. When she cut her hair during Peyton Place, the world took notice!

R92, census data supports a birthday in 1904 or 1905. She is listed as 5 years old in the 1910 census, she is listed under her name at the time Lucile Cassin

Ok, but 40, almost 41, was, I believe, still on the young(er) side for most mid-century women to become grandmothers.

r102 it was young but much more common than today.

On that we can agree, R103.

Joan was the Jared Leto of her day

Joan had needs!

[quote] I guess by cutting Crawford, he made Satan’s presence in the film even more mysterious

💀

Wonder if she just wanted Mia to sit on her hand

How many poor domestics and secretaries had to deal with a drunk, handsy Joan over the decades.

In her book, Christina C said it was hard to keep governesses because drunken Joan was often coming on to them.

True r110. Joan also had female fans who came over and helped her with daily household things and all the mailings of autographed pictures. Joan surely hit on them as well.

Well, those gals were probably THRILLED! In the "Mommie Dearest" screenlay, Carol Ann begins as a fan, waiting outside MGM for Joan's autograh. And in real life Betty Barker, or one of Crawford's other main secretaries, started out knowing her as a fan, too.

Christina wrote that these fans would do ANY job for Joan. They painted, they cleaned out garages, they weeded... anything she asked.

I've never heard of any other star using fans for physical labor before.

She hit on them or she hit them.

[quote]In her book, Christina C said it was hard to keep governesses

You mean nannies, r110.

Mine were both dead before I was born. But one would have been 68 and one would have been 52.

R112 I think Doris Day may have.