What falls away : a memoir (15 page)

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Maria Roach and mv brother Johnnv at the Candv Cane Ball.

Queen of the Fiestas in Dema, Spain, 1958.

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Mike with Dad.

Mike

MKliatl Daiiutn Villitrs Farrow Born May 30th, 1939 DitJ October 29. 1958

Our Father who art in heasen.

Hallow(.d he thy name. Thy kinjjdom come.

ITiy will be done ....

Mv favorite picture of Mike.

Eternal rest grant unto hirn. O I-«rd, and let (xrpetual li^ht shine upon him.

My father in his bedroom.

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JANUARY 29, 19d?

! Farrow, winner of t-heMo-|* Uon Picture Academy's 1956,s best screenplay award fori' "Around the World in SOJ Days," was born in Sydney,F Australia, in 1904. '^

Short story writing ledj* Farrow to Holly^vood, where'' ne was employed as a seen- f list by Cecil B. DeMille in « l'^27. His greatest success be-1 -an 10 years later, howe^'er. I Al'en he wrote and directed " "My Bill" for Warner Bros.''

In Canadian Navy ,

, In 19;J9 he joined the Ca-i. nadian Xavy. iieeing action! wiUi the anli-subraarine pa-l

"X)! in convoys in the North \d South Atlantic. i

Farrow's long list of film ci-edits includes such pic-: tares as "Wake Island." "Bill of Divorcement," "Five Came Back," "Two Years Before the Mast," "Hondo." "California," "Botany Ba}'," and

Back From Eternity." Tragedy visited the Far-

•ows in 1958 when the eldest ii their seven children, Mlichael D. V. Farrow, 19, A-as killed in an air collision near Whiteman Alrpaik, Pa-i coima. i

Others of the surviving! SIX children are John, 16,j Prudence, V5, Stephanie, 13,1 and Tiv-a (Theresa) Farrow,)-

John Forrow

Film Writer John Farrow Dies at 58

A; ires.s Maureen O'.-^ulli-

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jjohn Villiers Farrow, 58.

The colorful film writer-director was found dead late Sunday in their Beverlyi Hills home by his son, Pat-' rick, 20, eldest of the couple's six children.

Farrow lay fully clothed on a bed in his study in the home at 809 N Roxbury Dr., His hand rested on a telephone as if he were about; to rn?if a ^-nll. j

Mas.«ive Heart Attack . Dr. William Weber Sn- Ji,i the family physician, .saic. he! died of a massive heart at-l tack. He had some hearty trouble long ago and a cir-f-vilalorj' disorder more rc-jcently. Dr. Sniith said ! Funeral arrangement.? are pending at the Cunninghaiii 4: O'Connor Hollywood Mot ituarv

With Ryan O'Neal m Peyton Place.

(Courtesy of 20th Century—Fox)

Dali and me.

('photo by Philippe Halsman © Halsman Estate)

Graduation in Peyton Place.

(Courtesy of lOth Century—Fox)

M\- first film, Guns at Batasi. John Leyton is on the left and Richard Attenborough to the right,

(Courtesy of 10th Century—Fox