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Since childhood, Frances Farmer is a rebellious and outspoken young woman whose first taste of notoriety is a prize-winning high school essay entitled "[[GodIsDead God]] [[ExcitedShowTitle Dies!]]" A few short years later, a twenty-ish Frances travels to the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] to study acting, seriously damaging her chances of Hollywood success during the RedScare. But Frances is determined to make her way without kowtowing to the Hollywood machine...only to find that the machine won't let her.
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Since childhood, Frances Farmer is a rebellious and outspoken young woman whose first taste of notoriety is a prize-winning high school essay entitled "[[GodIsDead God]] [[ExcitedShowTitle God Dies!]]" A few short years later, a twenty-ish Frances travels to the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] to study acting, seriously damaging her chances of Hollywood success during the RedScare. But Frances is determined to make her way without kowtowing to the Hollywood machine...only to find that the machine won't let her.
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Since childhood, Frances Farmer is a rebellious and outspoken young woman whose first taste of notoriety is a prize-winning school essay entitled "[[GodIsDead God]] [[ExcitedShowTitle Dies!]]" A few short years later, a teenage Frances travels to the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] to study acting, seriously damaging her chances of Hollywood success during the RedScare. But Frances is determined to make her way without kowtowing to the Hollywood machine...only to find that the machine won't let her.
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Since childhood, Frances Farmer is a rebellious and outspoken young woman whose first taste of notoriety is a prize-winning high school essay entitled "[[GodIsDead God]] [[ExcitedShowTitle Dies!]]" A few short years later, a teenage twenty-ish Frances travels to the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] to study acting, seriously damaging her chances of Hollywood success during the RedScare. But Frances is determined to make her way without kowtowing to the Hollywood machine...only to find that the machine won't let her.
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* GoAmongMadPeople: While she's definitely suffering from substance abuse, she's not nearly as mentally ill as her fellow patients...at least, not until she's been trapped there a while.
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* GoAmongMadPeople: While she's definitely suffering from substance abuse, she's not nearly as mentally ill as her fellow patients...at least, not until she's been trapped there a while. As Frances puts it, "If you're treated like a patient, [[BecomingTheMask you're apt to act like one.]]"
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* RapeAsDrama: Frances is subjected to sexual assault both from employees at the hospital and from soldiers at a nearby air base to whom the hospital staff regularly pimps their patients (another point that may or may not have happened in Real Life).
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* RapeAsDrama: Frances is subjected to sexual assault both from employees at the hospital and from soldiers at a nearby air base to whom the hospital staff regularly pimps their patients (another point patients. (This is another dramatic aspect that may or may not have happened probably didn't happen in Real Life).Life.)
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A 1982 film depicting 1930s actress Frances Farmer's life, directed by Graeme Clifforc and starring Creator/JessicaLange in the titular role. Also featuring Music/SamShepard and Kim Stanley.
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Since childhood, Frances Farmer is a rebellious and outspoken young woman whose first taste of notoriety is a prize-winning school essay entitled "[[GodIsDead God]] [[ExcitedShowTitle Dies!]]" A few short years later, a teenage Frances travels to the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] to study acting, seriously damaging her chances of Hollywood success during the RedScare. But Frances is determined to make her way without kowtowing to the Hollywood machine...only to find that the machine won't let her.
Her frustration leads her to a downward spiral of drugs and alcohol, until her overbearing StageMom has her involuntarily committed to a borderline BedlamHouse where she is subjected to a TraumaCongaLine including [[RapeAsDrama rape]], [[HarmfulHealing sadistic therapeutic treatments]], and ultimately a {{lobotomy}}. Eventually she is discharged from the hospital but finds herself ostracized by the specter of her mental illness.
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%%* TheAlcoholic: Frances, though she denies it.
%%* BedlamHouse: The place where Frances is institutionalized.
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%%* GoAmongMadPeople
%%* InstitutionalApparel: Straitjackets.
* {{Lobotomy}}: Done to Frances. (Reportedly never happened to the real Frances Farmer).
%%* TheAlcoholic: Frances, though she denies it.
%%* BedlamHouse: The place where Frances is institutionalized.
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%%* GoAmongMadPeople
%%* InstitutionalApparel: Straitjackets.
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%%* * TheAlcoholic: Frances, though she denies it.
%%*Frances is rarely without a drink in her hand after her career flops, and her dangerous drunk driving is what ultimately lands her in the hospital.
* BedlamHouse: Theplace hospital where Frances is institutionalized.
%%* DownerEnding
%%* GoAmongMadPeople
%%*sent is a nightmare where patients are alternatively tortured by the staff, giving unnecessary and dangerous treatments by doctors, and completely neglected.
* BreakTheHaughty: Frances is no angel, but forces in her life conspire to break her spirit.
* Catch22Dilemma: Frances's perfectly reasonable anger at being involuntarily institutionalized is seen as a symptom of her mental illness, and thus as a valid reason for keeping her institutionalized. The longer she stays, the more angry she becomes at being kept, and thus all the more reason why she should remain. The only way be freed is to "get better" by essentially giving up her strong-willed, stubborn personality...which for someone like Frances would ''itself'' drive her crazy.
* DoubleStandard: A theme of the whole film. Frances's mercurial, uncompromising personality, heavy drinking, and occasional outbursts might have been seen as just another temperamental actor if she were a man. As a woman, however, they're taken as a sign that she's mentally ill.
* DownerEnding: Frances' promising career never recovers after her ordeal, and she eventually dies alone, anonymous, broke, and broken.
* DrivenToMadness: The film suggests that Frances wasn't mentally ill before she was institutionalized, but that the traumatic experience drove her insane.
* DyingAsYourself: Toward the end of her life, Frances must decide between expressing her true personality and adopting a quieter one for fear that one step out of line will make people believe she is still mentally ill.
* GoAmongMadPeople: While she's definitely suffering from substance abuse, she's not nearly as mentally ill as her fellow patients...at least, not until she's been trapped there a while.
* HairTriggerTemper: Frances can snap at people at the drop of a hat, frequently to the point of physically attacking them.
* HarmfulHealing: Frances is subjected to hydrotherapy (forced icy-cold baths meant to shock the patient to sanity), insulin therapy (a regiment of insulin injections until she falls into a "therapeutic" coma meant to reset her mental functions) and ultimately lobotomization. All of these were standard treatments for mental illness in the age before psychiatric drugs.
* InstitutionalApparel:Straitjackets.
White scrubs for the orderlies, grey nightgowns (and straitjackets!) for the patients.
* {{Lobotomy}}:Done to Frances. (Reportedly never happened to Depicted as fact in the real movie, though it probably didn't happen to Frances Farmer).in real life.
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* BedlamHouse: The
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%%* GoAmongMadPeople
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* BreakTheHaughty: Frances is no angel, but forces in her life conspire to break her spirit.
* Catch22Dilemma: Frances's perfectly reasonable anger at being involuntarily institutionalized is seen as a symptom of her mental illness, and thus as a valid reason for keeping her institutionalized. The longer she stays, the more angry she becomes at being kept, and thus all the more reason why she should remain. The only way be freed is to "get better" by essentially giving up her strong-willed, stubborn personality...which for someone like Frances would ''itself'' drive her crazy.
* DoubleStandard: A theme of the whole film. Frances's mercurial, uncompromising personality, heavy drinking, and occasional outbursts might have been seen as just another temperamental actor if she were a man. As a woman, however, they're taken as a sign that she's mentally ill.
* DownerEnding: Frances' promising career never recovers after her ordeal, and she eventually dies alone, anonymous, broke, and broken.
* DrivenToMadness: The film suggests that Frances wasn't mentally ill before she was institutionalized, but that the traumatic experience drove her insane.
* DyingAsYourself: Toward the end of her life, Frances must decide between expressing her true personality and adopting a quieter one for fear that one step out of line will make people believe she is still mentally ill.
* GoAmongMadPeople: While she's definitely suffering from substance abuse, she's not nearly as mentally ill as her fellow patients...at least, not until she's been trapped there a while.
* HairTriggerTemper: Frances can snap at people at the drop of a hat, frequently to the point of physically attacking them.
* HarmfulHealing: Frances is subjected to hydrotherapy (forced icy-cold baths meant to shock the patient to sanity), insulin therapy (a regiment of insulin injections until she falls into a "therapeutic" coma meant to reset her mental functions) and ultimately lobotomization. All of these were standard treatments for mental illness in the age before psychiatric drugs.
* InstitutionalApparel:
* {{Lobotomy}}:
* RapeAsDrama: Frances is subjected to sexual assault both from employees at the hospital and from soldiers at a nearby air base to whom the hospital staff regularly pimps their patients (another point that may or may not have happened in Real Life).
* MyBelovedSmother: Frances's mother Lillian alternates between this and a StageMom, going so far as to underhandedly obtain legal custody over her adult daughter in order to control her behavior.
* MyBelovedSmother: Frances's mother Lillian alternates between this and a StageMom, going so far as to underhandedly obtain legal custody over her adult daughter in order to control her behavior.
* TraumaticHaircut: Frances' golden hair is forcibly cut to "prevent lice." She kicks and screams all the way.
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A 1982 film depicting 1930s actress Frances Farmer's life, starring Creator/JessicaLange in the titular role. Also featuring Music/SamShepard and Kim Stanley.
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A 1982 film depicting 1930s actress Frances Farmer's life, directed by Graeme Clifforc and starring Creator/JessicaLange in the titular role. Also featuring Music/SamShepard and Kim Stanley.Stanley.
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* StageMom: Frances' mother mentions she likes to think that Frances got some of her talent from her. The mother used to have acting aspirations as well.
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* StageMom: Frances' mother mentions she likes to think that Frances got some of her talent from her. The mother used to have acting aspirations as well.
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->''"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one".''
-->-- '''Frances Farmer'''
A 1982 film depicting 1930s actress Frances Farmer's life, starring Creator/JessicaLange in the titular role. Also featuringSam Shepard Music/SamShepard and Kim Stanley.
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* BedlamHouse: The place where Frances is institutionalized.
* GoAmongMadPeople
* HollywoodAtheist: While in high school, Frances writes an award-winning essay about her atheism.
* {{Lobotomy}}: Done to Frances. (Reportedly never happened to the real Frances Farmer).
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Quite a few aspects of the film have been said to be fiction. Frances' lobotomy is the most notable example.
* HollywoodAtheist
* {{Lobotomy}}: Done to Frances. (Reportedly never happened to the real Frances Farmer).
* BedlamHouse
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A 1982 film depicting 1930s actress Frances Farmer's life, starring Jessica Lange in the titular role.
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!! Frances contains examples of:
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Quite a few aspects of the film have been said to be fiction. Frances' lobotomy is the most notable example.
* HollywoodAtheist
* {{Lobotomy}}: Done to Frances. (Reportedly never happened to the real Frances Farmer).
* BedlamHouse
