Mia Farrow

Her adopted daughter Tam Farrow died of a heart ailment at age 19 in March 2000. The musical group The Smashing Pumpkins named their debut album Gish after her. 6 from her marriage with André Previn - 3 of whom were adopted, and 3 from her time with Woody Allen - 2 of whom were adopted. Her last major role was in The Whales of August in 1987, although she had an uncredited role in Bamboozled (in the excerpt of The Birth of a Nation) in 2000. By 1994, Mia Farrow had 14 children, 9 of them adopted. She appeared in films from time to time for the rest of her life, in 1971 winning a special Academy Award "For superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures." In 1984 she received an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award. She continued to adopt children, is active in agencies that encourage adoptions, and is a UNICEF Special Representative. Returning to movies, Gish was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1946 for Duel in the Sun.

Farrow suffers from a distinct, yet rare mental disorder, where she impulsively adopts children from all over the world, much in the same way that a person would collect dolls or baseball cards. She acted on the stage for the most part in the 1930s and early 1940s, preferring to care for the aging Griffith and his wife in their later years. Allen became infamously tainted for a time afterward, having somewhat confirmed Farrow's accusations by his open relationship with one of her adopted teenage daughters, Soon Yi Previn. Preferring silent movies, she spurned talkies until MGM finally let her go from her contract in 1928. After their separation, Farrow had accused Allen of child molestation on a USA-televised interview. She claimed to having witnessed Allen abusing one of their youngest adopted children. Having appeared in over 25 short films and features in her first two years in Hollywood, Lillian became a major star, becoming known as "The First Lady of the Silent Screen". They also adopted a son and daughter together. The Gish-Griffith association was so close that it has been widely suspected that Lillian was Griffith's lover, though the evidence is circumstantial at best. Known relationships were Lillian's affairs with Charles Duell, a producer, to whom she was reportedly engaged, and the drama critic and editor George Jean Nathan.

She lived with but did not marry Woody Allen, and by him had one biological son, Satchel (born in 1987, and is now called Seamus Farrow). Griffith. They divorced in 1979. Their first role was in An Unseen Enemy, directed by D.W. They had three biological children (Matthew, Sascha, and Fletcher) together and adopted three children, Soon Yi, Lark Song, and Daisy. In 1914, they met Mary Pickford, and she got them contracts with Biograph Studios. She married André Previn in 1970. They also took modeling jobs.

They divorced in 1968. When Lillian and Dorothy were old enough, they joined her act. While working on the film "Rosemary's Baby" with director Roman Polanski, Frank served her divorce papers in front of the cast and crew. The divorce came as a surprise to Mia, who did not even know Frank was thinking of leaving her. The Gish sisters' mother Mary began acting in order to support the family after her husband abandoned them. She married Frank Sinatra on July 19, 1966. Born Lillian Diana de Guiche in Springfield, Ohio, she was the sister of actress Dorothy Gish. Mia Farrow, an American actress, born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow but always known as Mia, February 9, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director John Farrow (1904-1963) and his wife Maureen O'Sullivan (1911-1998), the actress who played "Jane" to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan. Lillian Gish (October 14, 1893 - February 27, 1993), was an American actress.

Angela Mooney - 1996. Griffith, and Me (with Ann Pinchot) (Prentice-Hall, 1969). Miami Rhapsody - 1995. The Movies, Mr. Widows' Peak - 1994. The Night of the Hunter (1955). Husbands and Wives - 1992. Duel in the Sun (1946).