Frances Farmer

Frances Farmer was born on Sep 19, 1913 in USA. Frances Farmer's big-screen debut came with Too Many Parents directed by Robert F. McGowan in 1936. Frances Farmer is known for Will There Really Be a Morning? directed by Fielder Cook, Susan Blakely stars as Frances Farmer and Lee Grant as Lillian Farmer. The upcoming new movie Frances Farmer plays is Will There Really Be a Morning? which will be released on Feb 22, 1983.

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