Frances Farmer
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1913-09-19
- Died
- 1970-08-01
- Works
- 2
Top works
- The Woodrow Wilson Reader (Docket Series, Volume 4)
- The Wilson reader
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Film & TV
Acting · Seattle, Washington, USA
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. Farmer was the subject of three films, three books, and numerous songs and magazine articles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frances…
Known for
- Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review — Lotta Morgan (archive footage) (uncredited)2006
- Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies — (archive footage) (uncredited)1988
- The Party Crashers — Mrs. Bickford1958
- Frances Farmer Presents — Host1958
- Studio One1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self1948
- Studio One — Sarah Walker1948
- Studio One — Laura Nelson1948
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake — Isabel1942
- Among the Living — Elaine Raden1941
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 107
- Total plays
- 911
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. Farmer was the subject of three films, three books, and numerous songs and magazine articles. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Frances+Farmer">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,320x
- Cancer-related inflammation
· 2008 · cited 9,161x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,906x
- The protein data bank: A computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures
· 1977 · cited 6,767x
- Searching for Common Threads: Understanding the Multiple Effects of Diversity in Organizational Groups
· 1996 · cited 6,034x
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Quotes
- “If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.”
- “I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.”
- “There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.”
- “It was pretty sad, because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.”
- “I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.”
- “I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them. The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Frances Elena Farmer , ( 1913-09-19 ) September 19, 1913, Seattle , Washington , U.S.
- Died
- August 1, 1970 (1970-08-01) (aged 56), Indianapolis, Indiana , U.S.
- Resting place
- Oaklawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Fishers, Indiana , 39°55′48″N 86°03′49″W / 39.9301°N 86.0636°W / 39.9301; -86.0636
- Alma mater
- University of Washington
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1935–1965
- Spouses
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Key dates
- Born
- 19 September 1913
- Died
- 1 August 1970
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frances
- Family name
- Farmer
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Seattle
- Place of death
- Indianapolis
- Spouse
- Leif Erickson
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater notoriety posthumously for having had a nervous breakdown and undergone a five-year involuntary commitment in a state-run mental institution. She was said to have suffered abusive conditions, which have remained the subject of much controversy and speculation.
A native of Seattle, Washington, Farmer began acting in stage productions while a student at the University of Washington. After graduating, she began performing in stock theater before signing a film contract with Paramount Pictures on her 22nd birthday in September 1935. She debuted in the B films Too Many Parents and Border Flight, before co-leading with Bing Crosby in the musical Rhythm on the Range (both 1936). Unhappy with the opportunities the studio gave her, Farmer returned to stock theater in 1937 before being cast in the Broadway production of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy. She followed this with two Broadway productions directed by Elia Kazan in 1939, but a battle with depression and binge drinking caused her to drop out of a subsequent Ernest Hemingway stage adaptation.
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