Miss Farrow was fairly reticent, especially about John and Mary.

Both Miss Campbell and Miss Farrow were called to give evidence last year.

"Miss Farrow does not want the case tried in the press."

In this, their 11th collaboration, Miss Farrow gives a performance that sums up and then tops all of the performances that have preceded it.

In the end, it took a cat - a Christmas gift from Miss Farrow - to seal the deal.

But Miss Farrow, the mother of eight and his companion of seven years, owns a home in Connecticut.

And at any time now, Miss Farrow will give birth to their child, an event that much has wrongly been made of.

In fact, some years ago he became the legal father of Miss Farrow's now 8-year-old adopted son Moses.

Yet the odds that Miss Farrow will be nominated for an Oscar come mid-February seem nil.

The director is also the legal father of two of Miss Farrow's five adopted children.