Frances FarmerFilmography

Born:: September 19, 1913 in Seattle, WA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The legend of actress Frances Farmer endures among the greatest tragedies in the Hollywood firmament; a gifted, luminous performer, she tumbled from the peak of success into a series of nervous breakdowns, sanatorium stays, and bouts with alcoholism. Born September 19, 1913, in Seattle, WA, Farmer...Read More

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The Party Crashers

Actors: Mark Damon, Bobby Driscoll, Connie Stevens, Frances Farmer, Doris Dowling

Synopsis: Cocky Twig Webster (Mark Damon) is the leader of a gang of wealthy teenagers who go around crashing - and trashing - parties, just for kicks. And where are Webster's parents during all this antisocial behavior? Well, Twig's mom (Doris Dowling) happens to be the drunken, bleary-eyed center of Read More

1958
Son of Fury

Actors: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: This period swashbuckler film is based on the adventure novel Benjamin Blake by Edison Marshall, who also wrote The Vikings (1958). When his brother dies, scheming Arthur Blake (George Sanders) kidnaps his own nephew, Benjamin (played as a youth by Roddy McDowall and as an adult by Tyrone Power). Read More

1942
Badlands of Dakota

Actors: Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix, Frances Farmer, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson Read More

1941
Among the Living

Actors: Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: One of the eerier chillers of its period -- and one of the best ever to come out of Paramount -- Stuart Heisler's Among the Living is a strange and compelling mix of social drama, horror film, and suspense thriller. The story opens with the funeral of Maxim Raden, the patriarch who was pretty much Read More

1941
World Premiere

Actors: John Barrymore, Frances Farmer, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Dale, Ricardo Cortez

Synopsis: A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic, The Earth in Flames. It is slated to open in Washington, D.C. and he has his press agents working overtime to produce an enormous hoopla of secrecy and publicity stunts. They come up with the plan of Read More

1941
Flowing Gold

Actors: John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Pat O'Brien, Raymond Walburn, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: A tough, bitter fugitive's travels lead him to a grungy rundown oil town. There the transient is taken in by an oil-rigger who gives him a job working a well. They must work double-quick for the well's lease is due to expire. Unfortunately, they become so focused on striking oil quickly, they Read More

1940
South of Pago Pago

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island chieftan, young Kehane (Hall) defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson (Victor McLaglen) to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our Read More

1940
Ride a Crooked Mile

Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Frances Farmer, Lynne Overman, John Miljan

Synopsis: A macho Cossack immigrant to the U.S. goes West and joins a ring of rustlers. Later his son follows him to states and he too begins stealing cows. Not knowing his father very well, the youth is anxious to prove himself a manly man and a friendly rivalry develops until the father is captured and Read More

1938
The Toast of New York

Actors: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek

Synopsis: Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's The Toast of New York is a largely fanciful account of the career of 1870s financier "Jubilee Jim" Fisk. As played by Edward Arnold in his usual "tycoon" mode, Fisk was a Read More

1937
Ebb Tide

Actors: Oscar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Technicolor is the main attraction of this overheated South Seas adventure. Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff and Barry Fitzgerald play three shifty sailors who commandeer a smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway Pacific island, which is ruled by a white Read More

1937
Exclusive

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Charlie Ruggles, Lloyd Nolan, Fay Holden

Synopsis: Frances Farmer plays the daughter of an honest and ethical newspaper publisher (Charlie Ruggles). She wants to become a reporter herself, but when her Dad refuses to give her an easy break, Frances goes to work for a rival "tell all" tabloid. Her irresponsible reporting causes a highly respected Read More

1937
Come and Get It

Actors: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Andrea Leeds

Synopsis: Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the top, Arnold loses out on a chance for lasting happiness by spurning earthy dance hall girl (Frances Farmer), who marries his best pal (Walter Brennan) on the rebound. Read More

1936
Too Many Parents

Actors: Buster Phelps, George Ernest, Billy Lee, Howard Hickman, Porter Hall

Synopsis: In this drama, a group of young cadets in a military academy struggle to overcome their personal problems and make it through school. One of the lads is particularly troubled because he feels abandoned by his dad. In the end, the despondent youth nearly commits suicide by trying to paddle his Read More

1936
Rhythm on the Range

Actors: Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, Martha Raye, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: Bing Crosby's only western (outside of the 1966 version of Stagecoach), Rhythm on the Range stars Crosby as a casual cowpoke on his way back to the Wide Open Spaces after an eastern visit. He meets a young train stowaway (Frances Farmer), whom he regards as a hoydenish vagabond until learning that Read More

1936
Border Flight

Actors: Frances Farmer, John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: Border Flight devotes most of its running time to the exploits of the U.S. Coast Guard's airborne division. Flight lieutenants Dan Conlan (John Howard) and Pat Tornell (Grant Withers) find it impossible to get along, especially when battling over the affections of heroine Ann Blane (Frances Read More

1936