The Farrows of Hollywood, Marilyn Ann Moss
The Farrows of Hollywood, Marilyn Ann Moss
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The Farrows of Hollywood
Their Dark Side of Paradise

Author: Marilyn Ann Moss

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/09/2023

Synopsis

John farrow was Hollywood royalty. An Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter, he was married to the talented and beautiful actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Together they had seven children, including esteemed actress Mia Farrow, mother of journalist Ronan Farrow. They were a fairytale Hollywood family. But all was not as it seemed.

The Farrows of Hollywood: Their Dark Side of Paradise reveals that Mia Farrow's allegations of sexual molestation by Woody Allen of their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan, has roots in Farrow's childhood relationship with her father, John Farrow. John was often an abusive father to his children, his wife, and to his cowowrkers in Hollywood. Called the most disliked man in Hollywood, John Farrow was a tortured, tragic artist and father. He left his children a legacy of trauma that the family kept hidden. It erupted only years later when Mia Farrow unknowingly revealed her pain through her words and behavior in her allegations aimed at Allen.

The book includes new research, never-before-revealed interviews with actors who worked with John Farrow, and an original theory from author, biographer, and documentarian Marilyn Ann Moss.

Contains mature themes.

About Marilyn Ann Moss

Marilyn Ann Moss, who grew up in Los Angeles, is the author of Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director, Giant: George Stevens, a Life on Film, and is editor of the collection Raoul Walsh: Interviews for the University Press of Mississippi's long-running director series. Moss writes book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement and is a former film and television critic for the Hollywood Reporter and Boxoffice Magazine. She holds a PhD in American literature, film studies, and autobiography theory. She cocurated retrospectives of Raoul Walsh's films at the American Cinematheque in Hollywood, and has spoken at film retrospectives at UCLA, the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival, and at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2021, the Criterion Collection released her 2019, feature-length documentary, The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh, on Blu-ray.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on June 12, 2023

I'm always ready for a gossipy read about 1930s Hollywood, but this book is a mess. Unorganized and v repetitive. How many times is that damn snake tattoo mentioned, 20? Plus the errors. Harpo Marx was not married to a woman named Marian; she was married to Zeppo. The biggest howler -- Pride and Pre......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on April 14, 2023

THE FARROWS OF HOLLYWOOD opens in 1992 with Mia Farrow finding smiling nude photos of her adopted 19-year-old daughter in current boyfriend Woody Allen's apartment. Six months later, Farrow accused Allen of molesting the seven-year-old daughter they co-adopted. Allen denied all allegations. The case......more

Goodreads review by Robert on April 24, 2023

This book is terrific! I couldn’t put it down! If you're at all interested in Hollywood history, "The Farrows of Hollywood” is essential reading. Marilyn Moss tracks the Farrow family, from patriarch, director John Farrow, to wife Maureen O'Sullivan (Tarzan's Jane), through a second generation of Fa......more

Goodreads review by Harold on June 13, 2023

An enjoyable summer read. The book is not exactly what I was expecting, my late aunt had told stories of debauchery of early Hollywood. There was debauchery but this writer took the time to sketch out real people with real talents and virtues. What grabs you right away is the level of detail in the b......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on May 08, 2025

Interesting subject wrecked by biographer's clear dislike of Mia Farrow......more

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