An edition of Saint Frances of Hollywood (1996)
Saint Frances of Hollywood
By Sally Clark
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Publish Date
February 15, 1996
Publisher
Talonbooks
Language
eng
Pages
200
Description:
Her star rising as a Hollywood diva, Frances Farmer chooses to join the socialist Group Theatre in New York. This idealistic, raucous and non-conforming movie star, pursued by the Government for her alleged communist connections, was finally incarcerated with the help of her mother at Steilacoom, a Seattle psychiatric hospital, where she was lobotomized and released as "cured" in 1949. Saint Frances of Hollywood has taken the biographical details of Frances Farmer's life and transformed them into a mesmerizing and quintessential classic tragedy.