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The movie is about Frances Farmer, a beautiful and talented movie star from the 1930s and 1940s who had a streak of, independence and a compulsion toward self-destruction, and who went about as high and about as low as it is possible to go in one lifetime. She came out of Seattle as a high school essay-contest winner and budding intellectual.
Frances Reviews - Metacritic. 1982. R. Universal Pictures. 2 h 20 m. Summary The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted. Biography. Drama. Romance.
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- Graeme Clifford
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Frances: Directed by Graeme Clifford. With Jonathan Banks, Bonnie Bartlett, James Brodhead, Bart Burns. The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Graeme Clifford
- 1983-03-11
Yes yes, I'm a bandwagoner, see I've always been curious about Frances Farmer since Nirvana wrote a song for her. The good news is this movie based upon her life is actually fascinating and brilliantly acted by Jessica Lange. When we start this story we see Frances as a glamorous celebrity living the high life.
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- Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard
- Graeme Clifford
- Graeme Clifford
Dec 3, 1982 · The youthful Frances, the apple of the eye of her ambitious mother Lillian (Kim Stanley) and supported meekly by her father (Bart Burns), goes on to win an acting contest sponsored by a left-wing ...
- Graeme Clifford
Sep 10, 2012 · The sad life of '30s and '40s actress Frances Farmer is surely the stuff of melodrama: the story of an intelligent, uncompromising young actress with strong rad
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In the intervening years Frances pays a debilitating toll for attempting to assert her independence. Battling heartbreak and alcohol she is committed to an asylum, partly because her mother believes that anyone who turns their back on Hollywood must be crazy! Jessica Lange lost out to Meryl Streep’s performance in Sophie’s Choice for the ...
