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Frances Farmer, known around her home town as the “bad girl of West Seattle” for her spirited, headstrong and magnetic personality, was the stunningly beautiful actress of stage and screen whose all-too-brief career lit up Hollywood and Broadway in the ’30s and ’40s. Appearing like a comet out of the Pacific Northwest to make her film debut in 1936 in TOO MANY PARENTS, during the next six years she appeared in 18 films, three Broadway plays, thirty major radio shows and seven stock company productions – all by the age of 27. She was soon being compared to Greta Garbo...
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Added: 12th September 2007
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Posted by: Sophia on 2007-09-12
I saw a film about her life a few months ago, made in 1982, with Jessica Lange. Apparently Frances was committed to a mental institution by her mother in the mid-forties because of what was described at the time as her increasingly erratic behavior. I've read two different accounts of this, one contradicting the other, that claims the nurses found her to be quite well balanced. She was victimized repeadedly by the staff and others and eventually underwent a lobotomy. She was released years later, but of course, was never the same after that. It's all very sad.
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