Joan Crawford Left a 'Scary' Impression on Mia Farrow: 'I Got a Strange Vibe from Her'

Joan Crawford had a lasting belief connected 1 actress.

In a caller speech for Interview magazine, Mia Farrow opened up to character Cole Escola, 38, astir immoderate different encounters from her early Hollywood days – peculiarly pinch nan precocious surface icon.

As Escola shared their admiration for Crawford’s movie Our Dancing Daughters, nan 80-year-old didn’t clasp back. “She’s scary,” Farrow revealed. “And she was scary successful personification arsenic well.”

During her teenage years, while filming nan TV type of Peyton Place connected nan Fox batch successful California, nan character described a unusual brushwood pinch Crawford.

At nan time, nan Academy Award victor – astir 4 decades Farrow’s elder – was joined to Alfred Steele, nan then-president of Pepsi-Cola. 

According to Farrow, she began behaving successful ways that struck nan young character arsenic profoundly overseas – leaving a lasting belief that intelligibly lingers to this day.

“For immoderate reason, she started sending a full refrigerator of Pepsi Cola for my trailer ’cause I was successful a TV bid called Peyton Place,” she explained. 

“I don’t peculiarly for illustration Pepsi Cola, but a batch of Pepsi Cola kept coming to my trailer, much than anyone would ever want,” Farrow added. “And past she came complete to spot me, and I sewage a unusual vibe from her.”

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Away from nan set, Farrow besides had a fewer weird moments pinch nan legendary character successful New York astatine her mother, Maureen O'Sullivan’s, house. 

“I hung up people’s coats for my mom erstwhile they came into nan house. And I hung her overgarment and retired falls a flask of alcohol,” she recalls. “She grabbed it for illustration that, and she put it successful her handbag. She drank rather a lot.”

Following that, 17-year-old Farrow was invited to Crawford’s flat successful nan city. Thinking it was a party, she agreed to go. “But I arrived, and I was nan only 1 there,” she told Escola. 

Everything successful nan flat was green, bathed successful low, moody lighting. There were nary different guests.

Feeling highly uncomfortable, young Farrow made up an on-the-spot excuse to leave. “I conscionable made up a dishonesty that I wasn’t emotion very good and I didn’t want to springiness her immoderate diseases,” she shared. “I deliberation I said nan connection ‘diseases’ arsenic I walked retired of nan room. I was frightened of Ms. Crawford.”