Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frances Farmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review
2006
as Lotta Morgan (archive footage) (uncredited)
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 ro...
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
Novel
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
The Party Crashers
1958
as Mrs. Bickford
Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
as Isabel
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 h...
Among the Living
1941
as Elaine Raden
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Badlands of Dakota
1941
as Calamity Jane
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. Whi...
World Premiere
1941
as Kitty Carr
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 m...
Flowing Gold
1940
as Linda Chalmers
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 hi...
South of Pago Pago
1940
as Ruby Taylor
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. T...
Ride a Crooked Mile
1938
as Trina
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.
Ebb Tide
1937
as Faith Wishart
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The ...
Exclusive
1937
as Vina Swain
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government C...
The Toast of New York
1937
as Josie Mansfield
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 str...
Come and Get It
1936
as Lotta Morgan / Lotta Bostrom
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.
Rhythm on the Range
1936
as Doris Halliday
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 o...
Border Flight
1936
as Anne Blane
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 Wither...
Too Many Parents
1936
as Sally Colman
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 wri...