Frances Farmer

✶September 19, 1913

†August 1, 1970

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Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater notoriety posthumously for having had a nervous breakdown and undergone a five-year involuntary commitment in a state-run mental institution. She was said to have suffered abusive conditions, which have remained the subject of much controversy and speculation.

American actress (1913–1970)

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Biography from the article Frances Farmer on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.