Frances Farmer
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican actress (1913-1970)
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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Photos 10
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.Filmography 18
Come and Get It
Among the Living
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
The Toast of New York
Badlands of Dakota
Flowing Gold
The Party Crashers
Will There Really Be a Morning?
South of Pago Pago
World Premiere
Rhythm on the Range
Ebb Tide
Exclusive
Border Flight
Ride a Crooked Mile
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies23 credits on file
Television 3
Studio One
The Ed Sullivan Show
Frances Farmer PresentsIn their orbit 1
Connected to Frances 6
About this person
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. She was said to have suffered abusive conditions, which have remained the subject of much controversy and speculation.
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