Mia Farrow wished her ‘funny and wise friend of many years’, Michael Caine, a happy 90th birthday on Tuesday.
Posting an Instagram throwback of her and Michael at the 1979 People’s Choice Awards, Mia reminisced about the decades they’ve known each other.
Their friendship lasted through Mia’s high-octane showbiz romances with men like Frank Sinatra, André Previn and Woody Allen.
Michael won his first Academy Award when he and Mia starred as a married couple in Woody’s classic 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters.
In her birthday post for Michael, she wrote: ‘He once played my husband. Just a lovely man. He introduced me to Woody for which I forgave him :).’
Showbiz friends: Mia Farrow wished her ‘funny and wise friend of many years’ Michael Caine a happy 90th birthday Tuesday; the couple is pictured arriving at a party in 1966
‘Just such a lovely man’: Posting an Instagram throwback of her and Michael at the 1979 People’s Choice Awards, Mia reminisced about the decades they’ve known each other.
Acclaim: Michael won his first Academy Award when he and Mia played a married couple in Woody Allen’s classic 1986 film Hannah And Her Sisters (pictured)
Mia, who at 78 is more than a decade younger than Michael, slyly shared a bit of the birthday boy’s romantic history, saying, “In the past, when she was married to her father, Nancy Sinatra dated him.” If they had married, he would have been my son-in-law.
Frank took Mia’s virginity and married her in Las Vegas in 1966, sparking a flurry of publicity and ridicule over the fact that he was 50 and she was 21.
The marriage eventually soured over her refusal to put him ahead of her career: he made her serve divorce papers on the set of Rosemary’s Baby after he demanded she leave the movie during filming and she refused.
Woody and Mia became a couple in 1980, forming a romantic and professional team that gave the world movies like Crimes And Misdemeanors, Broadway Danny Rose, Zelig, Husbands And Wives, and Hannah And Her Sisters.
However, their relationship burst into flames in the early 1990s when Mia found what she called her “pornographic” photos of her adoptive daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
The discovery sparked a sensational custody battle that made headlines, and took an especially dark turn when Woody and Mia’s adopted daughter, Dylan, accused her father of sexually abusing her when she was seven.
Woody has always strongly denied the allegations, and Connecticut prosecutors dropped the case against him for lack of evidence.
However, in 1993 a judge ruled that Woody’s “behavior towards Dylan was grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her”, in addition to the fact that the filmmaker lost custody of all his children, including Ronan Farrow.
Connections: Mia noted that when she was married to Frank Sinatra, Michael was dating the legendary singer’s daughter, Nancy Sinatra; Michael and Tina in 1965
That’s how they were: Frank took Mia’s virginity and married her in Las Vegas in 1966 when he was 50 and she was 21; they are pictured leaving her wedding at the Sands Hotel
Doomed Romance: Woody and Mia became a couple in 1980, forming a romantic and professional team; They are photographed at Madison Square Garden in 1983
Woody, 87, married Soon-Yi, 52, in 1997 and the couple have stayed together ever since through the ups and downs of their careers.
The allegations against Woody came under new scrutiny in 2017 when the Me Too movement took off, spurred in part by Ronan’s exposure of Harvey Weinstein.
A few months later, Michael broke his silence about his professional relationship with Woody, telling the guardian: ‘I don’t regret working with him, which I did in complete innocence; but I wouldn’t work with him again, no.’
However, the following year he took a whirlwind by declaring that he would be open to working with Woody unless the allegations against him were proven in court.
“But I didn’t read that he was tried and found guilty or fined or sent to prison or anything like that,” Michael said. Rolling Stone. ‘This is all people say. You can’t keep talking hearsay all the time.
Remember when: Woody and Mia worked together on movies like Crimes And Misdemeanors and Hannah And Her Sisters, in which she appears with Michael.