Frances Farmer
Frances Elena Farmer ( born September 19, 1913 in Seattle, Washington; † August 1st, 1970 in Indianapolis ) was an American actress.
Life
The daughter of a lawyer studied drama at the University of Washington in Seattle with the goal of becoming a stage actress. She came over New York, where the first attempts to gain a foothold on Broadway, failed in 1935 to Hollywood. The Paramount Studios gave her a seven -year contract and tried to mold her out of a new movie star. She played some hopeful roles, but without resounding success. Their real goal of theater acting, she could not pursue in Hollywood, so she went back to New York. There she played in the Group Theatre, directed by the young director Elia Kazan. Hollywood, however, they did not let out of her contract and forced them to continue making films. In 1940, she therefore went back to the West Coast and played in several B-movies with.
After a series of scandals in 1943 she explains, among other things because of their radical political views for insane and sent to the mental hospital Western State Hospital in Lakewood. It began an odyssey through psychiatry, which ended only after eleven years of their release. The fictional biography Shadowland by William Arnold, according to a lobotomy had been performed on her during her treatment. However, this is not true.
She turned another movie and the 1958 even has its own show on American television, which is six years, was broadcast until 1964. In the last years of her life she stayed with odd jobs.
Frances Farmer died in 1970 of esophageal cancer.
Others
1982 was created under the title Frances a movie about her life. Frances Farmer was played by Jessica Lange, which was first nominated for this role for an Oscar.
Furthermore, the Nirvana album In Utero contains a song titled Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle.
The British band Culture Club released a song, The Medal Song, which is about her.
The French-Canadian singer Mylène Farmer has been named after the actress. The well-known, especially in the Francophone world pop singer was very touched by the fate of the actress.
The British folk - punk band The Men They Could not Hang takes in her song Lobotomy, Gets ' Em Home (released on the album Silvertown 1989) with respect to the fictional history of the lobotomy.