Biography

Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1935, she went to Hollywood where she secured a seven-year contract with Paramount. In 1943, she was wrongfully declared mentally incompetent and committed by her parents to a series of asylums and public mental hospitals, leading to a false rumor that she received a lobotomy. After seven years she was released, and spent some of the remaining years of her life tending the parents who had committed her and taking odd jobs. She appeared on This Is Your Life (1950), and then her own TV show, Frances Farmer Presents (1958) for six years. She died of cancer in 1970.

Writer

Will There Really Be a Morning?(1983)

Actress

Special Agent 7(1958)as Vera

The Party Crashers(1958)as Mrs. Bickford

Studio One(1948)as Sarah Walker

Matinee Theatre(1955)

Playhouse 90(1956)as Val Schmitt

Soundtrack

The Toast of New York(1937)

Come and Get It(1936)

Self

Frances Farmer Presents(1958)as Self - Host

Today(1952)as Self

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra(1959)as Self - Host

This Is Your Life(1950)as Self - Honoree

The Ed Sullivan Show(1948)as Self

Archive Footage

Nirvana: In Utero Under Review(2006)as Lotta Morgan

Screen Goddesses(2004)as Self

Biography(1987)as Self

E! True Hollywood Story(1996)as Self

E! Mysteries & Scandals(1998)as Self

Known for

Come and Get It1936 · Actress Flowing Gold1940 · Actress The Toast of New York1937 · Actress Ebb Tide1937 · Actress

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Cary Grant and Frances Farmer in The Toast of New York (1937)

Frances Farmer, John Garfield, Pat O'Brien, Cliff Edwards, Jody Gilbert, Tom Kennedy, William Marshall, Frank Mayo, and Raymond Walburn in Flowing Gold (1940)

Frances Farmer in Among the Living (1941)

Frances Farmer and Albert Dekker in Among the Living (1941)

Bing Crosby, Roy Rogers, Frances Farmer, Bob Burns, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr, Leonid Kinskey, Bob Nolan, Sons of the Pioneers, Louis Prima, Martha Raye, Martha Sleeper, and Tim Spencer in Rhythm on the Range (1936)

Frances Farmer, John Garfield, and Pat O'Brien in Flowing Gold (1940)

Credit Score: Frances Farmer

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Come and Get It

Lotta Morgan

Wed Dec 23 1936

#	Name	Score	Year	Known	★	Wins	Noms	Votes
1	Come and Get It	6.50	1936	•	6.8	1	2	2638
2	Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake	4.88	1942	•	7.1	0	0	2046
3	Among the Living	3.25	1941	•	6.4	0	0	958
4	Flowing Gold	3.25	1940	•	6.5	0	0	597
5	South of Pago Pago	3.25	1940	•	6.4	0	0	173
6	The Toast of New York	3.25	1937	•	6.3	0	0	1292
7	Exclusive	3.25	1937	•	6.3	0	0	164
8	Border Flight	3.25	1936	•	6.4	0	0	38
9	Too Many Parents	3.25	1936	•	6.5	0	0	93
10	Ebb Tide	3.09	1937	•	5.9	0	0	117