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Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This.

The podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.

Part of the Panoply Network.

I'm your host, Kareena Longworth.

When last we spoke, Mia Farrow had just been served divorce papers on the set of Rosemary's Baby

by her much older husband, Frank Sinatra, who was furious that Farrow had refused to quit

the Roman-Plancky movie to join Sinatra in another film called The Detective.

As we noted in our last episode, it has been suggested that Mia Farrow was gleeful when Rosemary's Baby opened in 1968

and trounced The Detective at the box office.

And maybe she was, but before either movie opened, after the actress and her estranged husband tried to reconcile

and still couldn't make it work, Mia was devastated.

And when her sister Prudence called in the midst of her own crisis and suggested that Mia come with her on a trip to India to study Transcendental Meditation,

Mia packed a bag and got on a plane.

This is where today's story begins.

We'll track Mia and her misadventures, including her roles in two really interesting and yet nearly forgotten movies through 1970,

which was the same year that a lyricist named Dori Previn emerged from a psychiatric hospital

with an album of songs written in the traumatic aftermath of her divorce from songwriter turned conductor Andre Previn.

Who had left Dori a year earlier for Mia?

And one of Dori's songs, written after her breakdown, was about that betrayal.

Join us, won't you?

For the second and final part of our story, Mia Farrow in the 1960s.

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