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Dustin Hoffman, born 1937
Mia Farrow, born 1946
Mia Farrow was twenty-three and Dustin Hoffman was thirty-one in early 1969 when Time magazine reported on them. "The casting together of the two fastest-rising performers in the business was inevitable. . . . It happened to Farrow and Hoffman after one big hit apiece." Hers was Rosemary's Baby (1968), and his was The Graduate (1967). Now cast together as chance lovers, they were performing in the soon-to-be-released "contemporary love story" John and Mary (1969). Time used the occasion to focus on the lives of these two children of Hollywood -- she was the daughter of director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan. And he was the son of a set decorator for Columbia Pictures, named after the silent screen actor Dustin Farnum.
Philippe Halsman, 1969
Time cover, February 7, 1969 |