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Frances Farmer

Frances Farmer

                    

                    

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.

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Movies Starring Frances Farmer (16)

Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review (2006)

By 1993, Nirvana was in a state of disarray. Having kick-started the grunge phenomenon two years earlier, the band were now keen to return to their roots. ...

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The Party Crashers (1958)

Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy. ...

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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. B ...

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Among the Living (1941)

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother. ...

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Badlands of Dakota (1941)

In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fe ...

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World Premiere (1941)

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies al ...

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Flowing Gold (1940)

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck. ...

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South of Pago Pago (1940)

Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane's head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane's people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic ...

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Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)

The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison. ...

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Ebb Tide (1937)

In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, th ...

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Exclusive (1937)

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news. ...

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The Toast of New York (1937)

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets. ...

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Come and Get It (1936)

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter. ...

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Rhythm on the Range (1936)

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. ...

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Border Flight (1936)

Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly excep ...

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Too Many Parents (1936)

Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide. ...

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Movies Made By Frances Farmer (1)

Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)

This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum. ...

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