Frances Farmer
American actress (1913-1970) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 56
Frances Elena Farmer 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.
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Frances Farmer PresentsSeries, Host
The Party CrashersFilm, 1958Mrs. Bickford1948
Studio OneSeries, Sarah Walker
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries, 19481942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin BlakeFilm, Isabel1941
Among the LivingFilm, Elaine Raden
World PremiereFilm, 1941Kitty Carr1940
Flowing GoldFilm, Linda Chalmers
South of Pago PagoFilm, 1940Ruby Taylor1938
Ride a Crooked MileFilm, Trina1937
Ebb TideFilm, Faith Wishart1936
Border FlightFilm, Anne Blane
Come and Get ItFilm, 1936Lotta Morgan / Lotta BostromToo Many ParentsFilm, 1936Sally Colman1913Born19 September 1913People around Frances
Alfred Edward Green Directed South of Pago Pago and Flowing Gold
Benjamin Glazer Produced Rhythm on the Range and Exclusive- Edward Small Produced The Toast of New York (1937)
Clem Bevans Also in Come and Get It (1936)
William Wyler Directed Come and Get It (1936)
Howard Hawks Directed Come and Get It (1936)
Samuel Goldwyn Produced Come and Get It (1936)
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Alfred Newman Wrote Come and Get It (1936)
Norman Taurog Directed Rhythm on the Range (1936)
Jack L. Warner Produced Flowing Gold (1940)
Edward Arnold Also in The Toast of New York (1937)
Alexander Hall Directed Exclusive (1937)
William Alland Produced The Party Crashers (1958)
Irving Bacon Also in Rhythm on the Range and Exclusive
Richard Rosson Directed Come and Get It (1936)
Stuart Heisler Directed Among the Living (1941)
Pedro de Cordoba Also in South of Pago Pago (1940)- Sidney Salkow Wrote Rhythm on the Range and Exclusive
Robert F. McGowan Directed Too Many Parents (1936)
Sol C. Siegel Produced Among the Living (1941)
Harlan Briggs Also in Exclusive and Among the Living
Harry C. Bradley Also in Come and Get It and Rhythm on the Range
Bernard Girard Directed The Party Crashers (1958)
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Farmer in a press photo for her winning the Voice of Action writing contest, April 10, 1935
Farmer in a publicity still, 1938
Leif Erickson and Farmer (front row, far left) with members of the Group Theatre in 1938
Left to right: Martha Scott, Uta Hagen, Farmer, and Julie Haydon posed in Stage magazine, 1938
Farmer was paroled into the care of her parents (pictured with her here in 1938) after her release from psychiatric confinement.About this person
She was said to have suffered abusive conditions, which have remained the subject of much controversy and speculation.
