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	Frances Farmer Presents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frances Farmer Presents (1958–1964) was an immensely popular afternoon television program on Indianapolis station WFBM-TV (then an NBC affiliate).
		Film actress Frances Farmer had gone to Indianapolis to appear in the play The Chalk Garden, where a WFBM executive saw her performance and suggested she would be an ideal celebrity to host their new daily series showcasing vintage films.
		Farmer not only introduced the daily feature, she also frequently interviewed visiting celebrities, people as diverse as Mitch Miller, Dan Blocker, Marsha Hunt, Marge Champion, and her own ex-husband Leif Erickson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frances_Farmer_Presents (257 words)

	Jessica Lange - Frances
		Farmer was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and from an early age, revealed herself as independent, outspoken and a magnet for controversy.
		Frances Farmer eventually returned to ordinary life and in the late 1950’s she appeared on This Is Your Life and went on to host her own television program in Indianapolis, Indiana.
		As Frances Farmer, she is both fragile and volatile, erupting in furious emotions in the asylum scenes and projecting a heartbreaking vulnerability in quieter ones.
	home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/jlfrances.htm (764 words)

	Literature Film Quarterly: Graeme Clifford's Biopic, Frances (1982): Once a Failed Lady, Twice Indicted
		Farmer's memoir tracks the dizzying spiral of her life and career that went tragically awry when she was stripped of all civil rights, remanded to the guardianship of her fiercely controlling mother, and imprisoned in a state mental asylum.
		Farmer's autobiography was published posthumously in 1972 and touched off a firestorm of controversy about the treatment, and mistreatment, of the mentally ill, and led to unconfirmed suspicions that she had been lobotomized while committed to the state hospital, a suspicion that gained currency in Arnold's 1978 biography.
		Frances (1982), the Hollywood film version of Frances Farmer's life, seeks to cinematically capture the tragic rise and fall of this talented artist and unwilling celebrity victimized by her own mother, who was backed by the combined patriarchal industries of Hollywood and western medicine.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200501/ai_n12412542 (1347 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Frances Farmer
		Debunkers of this aspect of Farmer's representation have stated that complete medical records for Western State Hospital, where Farmer was a patient, detail all lobotomies that were performed during her time there.
		Associates who knew Farmer during her later years in Indianapolis have described her as a woman capable of unreasonable or temperamental behavior, who could sometimes be confrontational and difficult.
		They also describe a woman who was able to establish a comfortable lifestyle and a successful career, (albeit hampered by alcoholism), in which she was required to display creativity and intelligence, and to communicate and interact effectively with a variety of people, especially during her 6 year role as a television presenter.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Frances_Farmer (1782 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Farmer, Frances (1913-1970) -- Part Two
		Farmer spent one more night in jail and then, after the intercession of a psychiatrist who had been contacted by her family, she was transferred to the psychiatric ward of the Los Angeles General Hospital.
		Farmer would spend most of the next seven years in mental institutions, beginning with seven and a half months at La Crescenta, for treatment of what was variously diagnosed as “manic depressive psychosis,” a “split personality,” “schizophrenia with paranoid illusions [sic],” or simple depression.
		Farmer herself addressed the issue in a 1968 tape-recorded interview with Lois Kibbee, a New York writer and actress who was collaborating with her on her autobiography.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5059 (3043 words)

	Frances Farmer: Shedding Light on Shadowland
		Frances’ years in Indianapolis (just one example) are filled with numerous anecdotes of her resisting authority, including an arrest for drunk driving and run-ins with station management at WFBM, and her rebellious, defiantly emotional attitude is well documented by friends and associates.
		Arnold states that information on Frances’ stay at a private sanitarium was sparse because she was not there very long (she was actually there for nine months in 1943), but implies that he was given access to the remaining records, which would have been in violation of several state and federal laws regarding patient privacy.
		Frances did have plans to write her own autobiography (she was a stunningly gifted writer, as is evidenced not only by her adolescent writings, including the infamous God Dies essay, but also her mature poems, which are as deep and imagistic as Anne Sexton's) and granted several interviews to Lois Kibbee during this process.
	jeffreykauffman.net /francesfarmer/sheddinglight.html (6994 words)

	Amazon.com: Shadowland: Books: William Arnold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Farmer was an actress in the late 1930s and early 1940s that was institutionalized, and as some believe, this was due to her political beliefs rather than mental illness.
		Farmer may not not have deserved the treatment she received in the asylums, but, according to those who knew her, she was mentally ill and those treatments were the standard of her time.
		Farmer was critical and courageous, and thus deemed to be an outrageous deviant by the authorities.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0070023115?v=glance (1637 words)

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		Miss Frances Farmer was unavailable for comment, but her mother Lillian -- Lillian stands in front of her wood frame house addressing a small CROWD of reporters, photographers, and curious neighbors.
		Frances hesitates, then turns to look: A man in his twenties whom we recognize as Harry York, Kaminski's compatriot, leaves a group of men in front of the union hall and walks toward her.
		Frances sits in the sun writing in her diary, the same one we saw at the opening of the film.
	www.weeklyscript.com /Frances.txt (9005 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION Frances Farmer 1998 Plate
		Frances Farmer was a very successful Hollywood actress in the 1930s who spent most of the 1940s being called insane.
		Frances Farmer was victimized by her family, by the entertainment business, and by the medical profession.
		Frances Farmer was a creative and high-strung individual with a passionate sense of integrity.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /farmer8.html (860 words)

	DVD.net : Frances - DVD Review
		When Frances Farmer hit Hollywood in the 1930s she had already made a name for herself by winning a high school essay competition with her entry entitled 'God is Dead'.
		Frances is based upon the life of Frances Farmer, and as such there is some controversy and debate as to how much of this movie is true, and how much has been dramatised.
		It is not in doubt that Frances was a loner, a bit of a rebel who wanted to do things her way, and fiercely independent at a time when women, especially Hollywood starlets, were expected to smile sweetly for the camera and do as instructed.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3627 (1110 words)

	Frances Farmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Frances Farmer was born in 1913 in Seattle.
		Farmer continued her tirade at her hearing, whereupon she was sentenced to 180 days in jail.
		Farmer is a cult figure now and was the subject of the Nirvana song "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle".
	www.tedstrong.com /francesfarmer.html (340 words)

	Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle by Nirvana Songfacts
		Frances Farmer was an actress who starred in several popular films in the '30s and '40s, but developed a reputation for being very difficult on the set.
		Kurt related Farmer's battles against her contracts with corporate Hollywood with his difficulty with his record label, which he felt was holding him back and stifling his art, making him release poppy stuff he was never satisfied with.
		Farmer was born in Seattle, but Kurt had a lot more to do with the city than she did, which leads me to believe this is not a musical biography...
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2508 (1316 words)

	Frances Farmer 1913 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Frances Farmer: Frances' Essay - on the death of God.
		Frances Farmer's life is a cautionary tale of fame spun out of control.
		This poignant portrait traces Farmer's rise and fall through intimate recollections of those who knew her, a treasure trove of clips and photos and the insights of psychiatric expert Dr. Jonathan Meyer.
	members.door.net /nbclumber/Local/frances_farmer.htm (216 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Frances (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Graeme Clifford's "Frances" tells the story of a small-town girl who tasted the glory of Hollywood and the exhilaration of Broadway and then went on to lead a life during which everything went wrong.
		The movie is about Frances Farmer, a beautiful and talented movie star from the 1930s and 1940s who had a streak of, independence and a compulsion toward self-destruction, and who went about as high and about as low as it is possible to go in one lifetime.
		Jessica Lange plays Frances Farmer in a performance that is so driven, that contains so many different facets of a complex personality, that we feel she has an intuitive understanding of this tragic woman.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19830128/REVIEWS/301280301/1023 (833 words)

	Movie Info for Frances on MSN Movies
		Even while institutionalized, Frances is abused by the powers-that-be; she is forced to undergo an injurious brain operation, is treated like a mad animal, and periodically raped by the inmates.
		Frances is released in the custody of her mother, who persists in browbeating her tortured daughter until Frances discovers the legal means to break away.
		The real-life Frances spent her last years as host of a local Indianapolis TV program, dying in 1970 at age 57; the film comes to a climax when Frances is feted on the smarmy network program This is Your Life.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=167959 (377 words)

	Frances Farmer pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
		Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington, Seattle.
		After eleven years she was released, and spent some of the remaining years of her life tending the parents who had committed her and taking odd jobs.
		She appeared on "This Is Your Life" (1952), and ran her own TV show, "Frances Farmer Presents" (1958) for six years.
	www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=643 (227 words)

	Frances (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Goofs: Boom mike visible: When Frances is at the party and is warned that she's being "bugged" by the Feds, a boom mike is clearly visible over her head.
		'Frances' is a highly touching reconstruction of the life of fifties actress Frances Farmer, from Seattle.
		I first heard about Frances Farmer through an interview with Kurt Cobain, who admired her courage and was experiencing the same as she had.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0083967 (481 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Farmer, Frances (1913-1970) -- Part One
		The standard version of the Frances Farmer story goes like this: An idealistic young actress challenges the hypocrisy of her world and becomes the victim of a spiteful mother, a vengeful Hollywood, and a cabal of callous and arrogant psychiatrists.
		Frances herself inherited some of those characteristics, and the conflicts between the two women eventually escalated to a level that neither seemed able to control.
		Farmer toured with the national road company of Golden Boy, but she was unceremoniously dumped when the company took the play to London for the start of a European tour.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5058 (2617 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Frances
		Frances begins in 1931 when a 16-year old Farmer writes a high school essay entitled "God Dies." This is just the first of many cases where she enrages Seattle's moral majority, who later branded her a communist.
		A talented stage actress in college, Farmer lands in Hollywood, where she declares "I'm not glamour girl." Nevertheless, she marries a young actor and makes movies (mostly to her chagrin), including Howard Hawks' Come and Get It (a film she was proud of, despite what this movie wants us to believe).
		He also was responsible for Farmer's first escape from the sanitarium and the reason she was presentable for a hearing that excused from her first asylum (the film contends Harry sneaks into her ward and gets a doctor to inject her with a drug that would make her more lucid).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/f/frances.q.shtml (732 words)

	Frances Farmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Frances Farmer was a successful screen and stage actress in Hollywood and Broadway in the 1930s and 1940s.
		For seven years, she was subjected to 90 insulin shocks and electroshocks, and was sold by psychiatric workers to drunken sailors who repeatedly raped her.
		She told of being "raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats, poisoned by tainted food, chained in padded cells, strapped in strait jackets and half drowned in ice baths." Her last "treatment" was a lobotomy by Walter Freeman.
	www.cchr.org /art/eng/page34.htm (158 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Farmer's determined individualism--from her youth in Washington State to her success on stage--both thrusts her into the limelight and ultimately leads to her downfall.
		Indeed, Farmer retired in 1942, before she was 30, and spent the rest of her life in and out of hospitals until her death at 57 in 1970.
		Farmer's story might have been transformed into sensationalistic tripe; instead, it is sensitively directed by Graeme Clifford and produced by Mel Brooks's company with the same taste that they brought to THE ELEPHANT MAN (scripted by Eric Bergren and Christopher DeVore, who collaborated with Elia Kazan's son, Nick, on the screenplay here).
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/Movie-Review.asp?MI=27501 (216 words)

	Frances Farmer as the Five of Pentacles
		Frances Farmer is a Level 2 archetype of Hardship.
		Frances Farmer picture from Frances Farmer: 1914-1970; includes bibliography plus a Frances Farmer Photo Gallery.
		Frances Farmer: her essay on the death of God
	www.hollywoodtarot.com /francesfarmer.html (180 words)

	Frances Farmer - Wikiquote
		Frances Elena Farmer (19 September 1913 – 1 August 1970), American film actress.
		Frances was a rebel when it wasn't fashionable — a free-thinking woman of the '30s and '40s whose outspoken nature, shocking language and anti-social behavior landed her in jails and mental institutions.
		The nicest thing I can say about Frances Farmer is that she is unbearable.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Frances_Farmer (876 words)

	Farmer, Frances - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Farmer, Frances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She starred in such films as Come and Get It (1936), The Toast of New York (1937), and Son of Fury (1942).
		A feature-film biopic, Frances, starring Jessica Lange, was released 1982.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Farmer,+Frances (121 words)

	Rossignol » Frances Farmer’s Brain
		Yet the popular media view of psychosurgery, reinforced by its portrayal in Ken Kesey’s film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Frances, the 1982 biopic about the life of the rebellious movie and stage actress Frances Farmer, is that doctors chose particular patients to operate on precisely because they wanted to crush their spirit.
		A disturbing scene in Frances shows a balding and goateed psychiatrist, who closely resembled Walter Freeman, performing an “ice pick” lobotomy at Western State Hospital on the supine heroine.
		The film turned Frances Farmer into a well known symbol of the excesses of the procedure—a patient supposedly selected for her nonconformist political opinions and who was operated on only with the consent of her vindictive mother, who colluded with doctors in using the procedure to vanquish her soul and spirit.
	rossignol.cream.org /?p=95 (695 words)

	Frances Farmer, 1913-1970
		SUMMARY At 16 Frances Farmer was an award-winning high-school student in Seattle--at 23, she was a rising and provocative star of stage and screen, admired for her beauty and talent--at 27, a chain of relatively insignificant events led to her arrest and eventual involuntary commital to a mental institution.
		She is currently appearing as a middle-class housewife coping with the sudden death of her husband in Paul Brickman's Men Don't Leave and as a criminal lawyer defending her immigrant father against charges of war crimes in Costa-Gavras's Music Box.
		TITLE A shadowy figure says he was Frances Farmer's lover, but a lawsuit claims different.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~pm9k/libsci/FF/francesF.html (844 words)

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