The Farrows of Hollywood - Their Dark Side of Paradise

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.