Saint Frances of Hollywood
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: February 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780889223660
Subjects: Drama texts: from c 1900 -; Individual Movie Actors And Actresses; Canadian Contemporary Drama; Drama; Biography / Autobiography; Plays; Canada; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses; Historical - U.S.; Women; Drama / Canadian; General
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 classic tragedy.