Frances Farmer

Before going to the library on Wednesday, I had no clue how many resources were available to us. Of course I knew about the books, Galileo and other commons things you find in the library, but there are so many different databases and articles just waiting to found. The word I was assigned to look up was Frances Farmer. At first, this was difficult because when I started looking for information on her, nothing came up but France and farmers. Most of the articles, I had found were not available for viewing. This really affected my task because I was not able to get five sources for this assignment. So I still have too look for more but at this time I could not. So I just went with what I had at the time. I found a good bit from this first author and I tried to provide background information and on the others I just gave a brief preview of the things she has been in.
Frances Farmer was a major actress in Hollywood during the 1930-1940s, but she wasn’t just known for her movies. Frances had a scary past, rebelling against many people wishes for her. She often did not get along with her mother, who was very controlling which lead to this child-like rebellion. She was placed in a mental asylum, where she claims of being abused while subjected to insulin shots everyday. She could never really keep friends and then died at a fairly early age of 57, in 1970 of cancer (Waites, Kathleen J.). Frances Farmer not only was an actress, but she wrote her own autobiography and eventually ventured out into Broadway. She was in “The Golden Boy” with Luther Adler (Osbourne, Robert). She was most noted for the film, "Frances", which was based on her turbulent life which then turned into several television and broadway shows (Storhoff, Gary).