--- title: Mia Farrow: Rare and Classic Photos of a Young Actress on the Rise description: On Mia Farrow's birthday (Feb. 9), LIFE features classic and unpublished photos of the actress when she was just 22 and a rising star. canonical: https://time.com/3879058/mia-farrow-rare-and-classic-photos-of-a-young-actress/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-07T02:52:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:46.582Z og:title: Mia Farrow: Rare and Classic Photos of a Young Actress on the Rise og:description: LIFE features classic and unpublished photos of the actress when she was just 22 and a rising star og:url: https://time.com/3879058/mia-farrow-rare-and-classic-photos-of-a-young-actress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt617891dc955489a9/69884b34cd68484bb409f5ee/140204-mia-farrow-02.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Mia Farrow 1967 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mia Farrow: Rare and Classic Photos of a Young Actress on the Rise twitter:description: LIFE features classic and unpublished photos of the actress when she was just 22 and a rising star twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt617891dc955489a9/69884b34cd68484bb409f5ee/140204-mia-farrow-02.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Young Mia Farrow: Rare and Classic Photos of an Actress on the Rise by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Feb 7, 2014 2:52 AM UTC  Caption from LIFE. "On a lark in London Mia 'borrows a construction lantern." Caption from LIFE. "On a lark in London Mia 'borrows a construction lantern."Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Feb 7, 2014 2:52 AM UTC Mia Farrow was 22 years old when LIFE magazine ran a seven-page cover story on the actress in May 1967\. She was married to [Frank Sinatra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5Fsinatra) (he was 30 years her senior, and the marriage lasted less than two years) and at the time was best-known for her work on TV: she was a regular on the classic prime-time soap opera, _Peyton Place_. But LIFE’s decision to feature the young Los Angeles native proved prescient; within a year she was receiving raves for performances in several prominent films — including the Roman Polanski horror classic, _Rosemary’s Baby_ — and would go on to a decades-long career as an award-winning actress and an outspoken, fearless campaigner for human rights. \[Most recently, of course, Ms. Farrow has been in the [headlines](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/kristof-dylan-farrows-story.html) primarily due to renewed accusations by her adopted daughter, Dylan, that Woody Allen sexually abused her when she was a child, at a time when Allen and Ms. Farrow were in a long-term relationship. Woody Allen has always denied the charges; Ms. Farrow has never wavered in her support of Dylan’s claims.\] As portrayed in that long-ago cover story, meanwhile, at a time when one of the keenest annoyances in her life was that people sometimes confused her with [Twiggy](http://life.time.com/culture/twiggy-rare-photos-of-a-sixties-icon/#1), Mia Farrow seemed to have it all — youth, beauty, talent and not a little mystery. As LIFE wrote: --- > “” --- --- > “” --- The feature goes on to paint a picture of a whip-smart, self-deprecatingly funny daughter of Hollywood (her mother was the famous actress Maureen O’Sullivan, her dad was Oscar-winning writer and director John Farrow) — a woman barely out of her teens yet worldly enough to say of her superstar husband, Sinatra: “He’s an artist. He’s groovy, he’s kinky and — above all — he’s gentle.” Here, on Ms. Farrow’s 69th birthday (she was born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow on February 9, 1945), LIFE.com features a series of photographs — most of them unpublished — that feel, in more ways than we can count, as if they were made not only in another time, but in another world. Which, of course, they were. _Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter_ [_@lizabethronk_](https://twitter.com/LizabethRonk)_._  Alfred Eisenstaedt—TIme & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow on the set of the film, A Dandy in Aspic, London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "On a lark in London Mia 'borrows a construction lantern." Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "Mia looks at off-beat antiques to find a gift for Frank. Word had leaked that she was buying him a British taxi; she settled for a $2,240 gazebo." Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow in London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow in London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and A Dandy in Aspic co-star Laurence Harvey, London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow in London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and A Dandy in Aspic co-star Laurence Harvey, London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, Laurence Harvey and A Dandy in Aspic director Anthony Mann, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "She mocks Harvey for his long hair and the length of time he spends with make-up, when all she does is dab her own eyes." Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "Between scenes of A Dandy in Aspic, Mia wrestles with co-star Laurence Harvey." Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and director Anthony Mann, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "She (Mia) tells Anthony Mann, 'I don't want to be me on screen.' But, says Mann, 'she's marvelous -- my main problem is not to change her an inch.'" Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow with co-stars on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Mia Farrow on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey (left), 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow in Geneva, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "On Swiss estate of her friend Yul Brynner, Mia romps with his five-year-old daughter, Victoria." Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Yul Brynner's daughter, Victoria, Switzerland, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Yul Brynner's daughter, Victoria, Switzerland, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Mia Farrow, Switzerland, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "Mia stares pensively into Lake Geneva. 'Life is not logical,' she says. 'I'm the living proof.'" Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow at home in London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Mia Farrow at home in London, 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "At the Sinatras' Grosvenor Square residence in London (other addresses: Paris, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, New York, Miami and Las Vegas), Mia preens in Cardin original before gala premiere of Taming of the Shrew." 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