Intimate Portrait: Mia Farrow (1999)

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This Lifetime Intimate Portrait tells Mia Farrow's life story with the help of interviews with Ms. Farrow herself, her children, ex-husband Andre Previn, and longtime friends and colleagues including Carly Simon, Nancy Sinatra, Natasha Richardson, and Roman Polanski. Born in 1945, the third of seven children, to actress Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane in the classic Tarzan movies) and screenwriter John Farrow, Ms. Farrow has lived a somewhat public life. Afflicted with polio as a child, she spent months in an iron lung. Later, her older brother was killed in a plane crash. She began to act on the New York stage at age 18, was in the TV series Peyton Place, and married Frank Sinatra at age 20 (divorcing 2 years later). Her starring role in Polanski's chilling movie, Rosemary's Baby, made her famous. During her nine-year marriage to conductor Andre Previn, three sons were born and three daughters adopted. Her long relationship with director/actor Woody Allen (which ended in a highly-publicized custody battle) is mentioned with restraint. Much of the focus of the film is on Ms. Farrow's life with her many children, and footage of the family at their Connecticut country home is included in this "authorized biography." ~ Alice Duncan, Rovi