Frances Farmer(1913-1970)
- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of
Washington, Seattle. In 1935, she went to Hollywood where she secured a
seven-year contract with Paramount. In 1943, she was wrongfully
declared mentally incompetent and committed by her parents to a series
of asylums and public mental hospitals, leading to a false rumor that
she received a lobotomy. After seven 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 (1950),
and then her own TV show,
Frances Farmer Presents (1958)
for six years. She died of cancer in 1970.
