1. Books and Videos
2. Articles
3. Song
4. Filmography and Biography (pointer). IMovieDBase
5. Frances as the Five of Pentacles
(pointer). Cards of Hollywood stars or Hollywood Tarot.
1. Books and Videos ---------------------------------------------
AUTHOR Arnold, William, 1945-
TITLE Shadowland / William Arnold.
PUBLISHED New York : McGraw-Hill, c1978.
DESCRIPTION 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
SUBJECT TERMS Farmer, Frances, 1913-1970.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
ISBN 0070023115
LOCATION CALL NUMBER STATUS
CLEMONS LIBRARY PN2287.F34 A7 Not checked out
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AUTHOR Farmer, Frances, 1913-1970.
TITLE Will there really be a morning? An autobiography.
PUBLISHED New York, Putnam [1972]
DESCRIPTION 318 p. illus. 22 cm.
ISBN 0399109137
LOCATION CALL NUMBER STATUS
ALDERMAN LIBRARY PN 2287 .F34 A3 1972 Not checked out
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TITLE The toast of New York [videorecording]
PUBLISHED New York, N.Y. : RKO Home Video, 1987.
DESCRIPTION 1 videocassette (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
VHS format [NTSC]
Based on "Book of Daniel Drew" by Bouck White and the story
"Robber Barons" by Matthew Josephson.
CREDITS Director, Rowland V. Lee; Screenplay, Dudley Nichols, John
Twist, Joel Sayre; music, Shilkret.
CAST Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie.
SUMMARY A romanticized biography of "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, a 19th century
medicine showman who became a notorious Wall Street
financier.
SUBJECT TERMS Fisk, Jim--Biography.
Biographical films.
AUTHORS Lee, Rowland V.
Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956.
Grant, Gary, 1904-1986.
RKO Radio Pictures, inc.
LOCATION CALL NUMBER STATUS
CLEMONS Video VID0000 .VHS1796 Not checked out
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TITLE Come and get it [videorecording]
PUBLISHED Los Angeles, CA : Embassy Home Entertainment, 1986.
DESCRIPTION 1 videocassette (99 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 1/2 in.
VHS format[NTSC].
Video release of a film released in 1936 by Samuel Goldwyn
Productions. Based on a novel by Edna Ferber.
SERIES Classic collection (Embassy Home Entertainment (Firm))
CREDITS Directors, Howard Hawks, William Wyler ; producer, Samuel
Goldwyn ; writers, Jules Furthman, Jane Murfin.
CAST Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Joel McCrea,
Walter Brennan.
SUMMARY A 19th-century Wisconsin lumber baron abandons a young woman
and later falls in love with her daughter.
SUBJECT TERMS Feature films.
AUTHORS Wyler, William, 1902-
Hawks, Howard, 1896-
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.
LOCATION CALL NUMBER STATUS
CLEMONS Video VID0000 .VHS1345 Not checked out
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TITLE Frances [videorecording]
PUBLISHED [S.l.] : Thorn EMI Video, 1982.
DESCRIPTION 1 videocassette (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
VHS format [NTSC]
Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture by EMI Films,
Inc.
CREDITS Director, Graeme Clifford ; producer, Jonathan Sanger ;
writers, Eric Bergren, Christopher DeVore, Nicholas Kazan ;
photography, Laszlo Kovacs ; music, John Barry.
CAST Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley.
SUMMARY At 16 Frances Farmer was an award-winning high-school student
in Seattle--at 23, she was a rising and provocative star of
stage and screen, admired for her beauty and talent--at 27,
a chain of relatively insignificant events led to her arrest
and eventual involuntary commital to a mental institution.
SUBJECT TERMS Feature films.
AUTHORS Clifford, Graeme.
LOCATION CALL NUMBER STATUS
CLEMONS Video VID0000 .VHS5069 Not checked out
Collection
2. Articles --------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR Monroe, Valerie. TITLE Jessica. SOURCE Harper's Bazaar 110-13+ Jan '91 FEATURES pors. SUBJECT TERMS Lange, Jessica. ABSTRACT Over the course of her career, actress Jessica Lange has shown that she can successfully play madwomen. She played the criminally seductive Cora in The Postman Always Rings Twice, and she received an Oscar nomination for her role as the self destructive actress Frances Farmer in Frances. In her latest film, Blue Sky, she plays a manic-depressive wife and mother. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR Wetzsteon, Ross. TITLE Lange range. SOURCE Vogue 180:192-3+ Feb '90 FEATURES il pors. SUBJECT TERMS Lange, Jessica. ABSTRACT Jessica Lange has successfully transformed herself from a blonde B-movie goddess into a serious actress. Lange got her start more than ten years ago in the remake of King Kong in a performance that made her a staple of talk-show one- liners. She turned her reputation around, however, when she landed a part in the remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice and then won an Oscar nomination for her gritty portrayal of actress Frances Farmer in the movie Frances. She is currently appearing as a middle-class housewife coping with the sudden death of her husband in Paul Brickman's Men Don't Leave and as a criminal lawyer defending her immigrant father against charges of war crimes in Costa-Gavras's Music Box. Lange discusses her feelings about acting and her relationship with playwright Sam Shepard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR Ash, Jennifer. TITLE Death? Sin? Scandal? For Greg Smith's Grave Line Tours, that's entertainment. (Touring Hollywood, Calif sites associated with actors' deaths and scandals). SOURCE People Weekly 29:83-5 Mar 7 '88 FEATURES il por map. SUBJECT TERMS Smith, Greg. Grave Line Tours--Touring Hollywood, Calif sites associated with actors' deaths and scandals. Motion picture actors and actresses. ABSTRACT Grave Line Tours has carved a sizeable niche in the Los Angeles tourist industry. Billed as "A Lively Look at Death-styles of the Rich and Famous," the tour takes Hollywood visitors by hearse to 80 sites where celebrities met their death or their fate; the arrest sites of Frances Farmer and Roman Polanski, for example, are included on the tour. Grave Line has been criticized for capitalizing on tragedy, but company co-founder Greg Smith feels that people are really interested in seeing morbid sites. Business has been booming since Grave Line opened last October. The company is planning to triple the number of daily pilgrimages to three and to open a shop that will sell copies of death certificates and other memorabilia. --------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR Cheney, Harry. TITLE Frances: prisoner in an American gulag. SOURCE Christianity Today 27:46 Apr 22 '83 FEATURES il. SUBJECT TERMS Farmer, Frances--1913-1970. ------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR Bosworth, Patricia. TITLE Discovering Frances Farmer. SOURCE Working Woman 8:118+ Feb '83 FEATURES il pors. SUBJECT TERMS Lange, Jessica. -------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR Hammer, Joshua. TITLE A shadowy figure says he was Frances Farmer's lover, but a lawsuit claims different. SOURCE People Weekly 19:38-40 Mar 21 '83 FEATURES il pors. SUBJECT TERMS Farmer, Frances--1913-1970. Arnold, Bill. Jacobson, Stewart. Copyright infringement.
5. Frances as the Five of Pentacles: Hardship. Has card of Frances and good links to other Frances sites.
3. Song ================================================== URL: http://www.seds.org/~smiley/nirvana/lyrics/fran.html Subject: fran.html Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle Album: In Utero Time: 4:07 _________________________________________________________________ It's so relieving to know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid It's so relaxing to hear you're asking wherever you get your way I's so soothing to know that you'll sue me, this is starting to sound the same I miss the comfort in being sad In her false withness, we hope you're still with us, to see if they float or drown Our favorite paitent, A display of patience, disease-covered Puget Sound She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars, and leave a blanket of ash on the ground I miss the comfort in being sad ===================================================================== 4. Filmography and biography - IMovieDBase This movie database filmography of Frances Farmer's movies with links to more detailed information on them, plus a link to a brief biography.
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