Saint Frances of Hollywood
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0889223661
ISBN 13
9780889223660
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
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 classical tragedy.Cast of 4 women and 4 men. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
