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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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jessica Lange | ... | Frances Farmer | |
| Kim Stanley | ... | Lillian Farmer | |
| Sam Shepard | ... | Harry York | |
| Bart Burns | ... | Ernest Farmer | |
| Jonathan Banks | ... | Hitchhiker | |
| Bonnie Bartlett | ... | Studio Stylist | |
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James Brodhead | ... | Desk Sergeant |
| Jane Jenkins | ... | Lady at Roosevelt Hotel (as J.J. Chaback) | |
| Jordan Charney | ... | Harold Clurman | |
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Rod Colbin | ... | Sentencing Judge |
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Daniel Chodos | ... | 'No Escape' director |
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Donald Craig | ... | Ralph Edwards |
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Sarah Cunningham | ... | Alma Styles |
| Lee de Broux | ... | 'Flowing Gold' Director | |
| Jeffrey DeMunn | ... | Clifford Odets | |
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Frances Farmer, a precocious Seattle teenager, takes unpopular social and political positions, to the mixed reactions of her parents. Frances becomes an actress and has some strong success in New York, but her refusal to bend her convictions and her outspoken (but sometimes naive) political expressiveness cause her difficulties, especially after she accepts a Hollywood contract. Torn between new-found success and intense feelings that she does not deserve the riches and fame she gains from the phoniness of Hollywood, Frances butts heads with studio executives and with her own mother, who revels in Frances's fame but provides Frances no emotional support. When drunken fights and arrests derail her career, Frances is sent to a psychiatric hospital with the acquiescence of her mother. What follows is a nightmare of poor treatment and psychological trauma, augmented by the increasing determination of Frances's mother to control her daughter's life. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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3 February 1983 (Argentina) See more »Also Known As:
Frances, a Filha da Fúria See more »Edit
Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$11,624, 26 December 1982, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$5,000,000Company Credits
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Frances Farmer: You jerks drag me down here in the middle of the night and you don't know who the hell I am?
Arresting Sergeant: Your name lady?
Frances Farmer: Frances Elena Farmer. Want me to spell it?
Arresting Sergeant: And your address?
Frances Farmer: Put me down as a vag, vagrant, vagabond. What is this, a joke? It's a joke? Assault and battery? Huh? I barely touched that bitch.
Arresting Sergeant: Occupation?
Frances Farmer: Cocksucker.
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Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Chet Swiatkowsky
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Trivia
The movie was originally based on William Arnold's "Shadowland", a fictionalized biography of Frances Farmer optioned in 1979, but, when the producers jettisoned Arnold's involvement, the screenwriters created Harry York, a fictional character, because they had to prove the movie was based on original material. Arnold sued, and lost, finally, long after the film had been released. See more »Goofs
When Frances is at the party and is warned that she's being "bugged" by the Feds, a boom mic is clearly visible over her head. See more »Quotes
Arresting Sergeant: Your name?Frances Farmer: You jerks drag me down here in the middle of the night and you don't know who the hell I am?
Arresting Sergeant: Your name lady?
Frances Farmer: Frances Elena Farmer. Want me to spell it?
Arresting Sergeant: And your address?
Frances Farmer: Put me down as a vag, vagrant, vagabond. What is this, a joke? It's a joke? Assault and battery? Huh? I barely touched that bitch.
Arresting Sergeant: Occupation?
Frances Farmer: Cocksucker.
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Soundtracks
Piano Sonata in A major, K.331Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Chet Swiatkowsky
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That's the kind of movie I see over and over and over and it always give me the emotional density I was looking for... One of my favorite scenes is in this drama: Some time after lobotomy, Frances tells Jack that from this moment on the things will be slower... She has no more emotion, is no more that vivid girl she was. No matter if this really happen or not to the actress: the situation is pure emotion. I saw all the movies starred by Frances Farmer that was possible for me to see and it makes me like her very much. Again, the music of John Barry makes me cry. The Hollyood background have never been so perfect. Jessica Lange gives the right density to the drama of the girl... Oh, my God, how she deserved that Oscar she did'n get...