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Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films over the course of her career, though she garnered notoriety for sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitment to psychiatric hospitals and subsequent mental health struggles.
Feb 21, 2022 · Born on September 19, 1913, in Seattle, Frances Farmer overcame a turbulent childhood to become one of mid-century America's biggest and most controversial stars. In 1978, a rumor spread that Frances Farmer had been lobotomized.
Frances Farmer. Actress: Flowing Gold. Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1935, she went to Hollywood where she secured a seven-year contract with Paramount.
Everyone thought Frances Farmer was destined to be the next big thing, but instead, she met one of the most horrifying fates in Hollywood. After spending five years locked up in a mental hospital, Frances Farmer emerged with disturbing secrets at her back—and it wasn’t until after she passed that her horror story finally came out.
Frances Farmer. Actress: Flowing Gold. Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1935, she went to Hollywood where she secured a seven-year contract with Paramount.
Jan 17, 2003 · Seattle-born actress Frances Farmer, a rising star in the 1930s, is remembered today more for her unfortunate life story than for her once promising career. Talented and beautiful, Farmer was also willful, troubled, and self-destructive. After a period of increasingly erratic behavior, she was declared legally insane and institutionalized in 1944.
Aug 2, 1970 · INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 1—Frances Farmer, a leading figure on the stage and screen in the 1930's, died in the Community Hospital here this afternoon, of cancer of the esophagus. She was 56 years...
Sep 19, 2013 · The facts of Frances Farmer’s life – some wildly fictionalized by the press and in posthumous movies – make up one of the saddest stories to come out of Hollywood. She began as a beautiful and...
Farmer, Frances (1913–1970) American actress whose tragic life became the subject of the movie Frances . Born September 19, 1913, in Seattle, Washington; died of cancer on August 1, 1970, in Indianapolis, Indiana; daughter of Lillian (Van Ornum) Farmer and Ernest Farmer; sister of Edith Farmer Elliot ; married Leif Erickson (an actor), in ...
Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress of stage and screen. She is perhaps better known for sensationalized and fictional accounts of her life, and especially her involuntary commitment to a mental hospital.
