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Frances Farmer

Frances Farmer

American actressWikipedia

Search complete. 26 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Frances Farmer".

Oct 14, 2026

speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
56:45
I was rather amazed to find out how many of our Hollywood neighbors are now in plays there, or soon will be.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
56:51
Mona Barry, Frances Farmer, Frederick March, and Florence Eldridge, Ian Keith, Walter Huston, and Nan Sunderland.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
56:57
But it's very good to be back home and to be with all of you here in the Lux Radio Theater once again.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
57:02
Many thanks.
EnriqueHOST
6:11
Entonces, esto es algo que se sabe y en aquella época se documentó y salió a la luz.
EnriqueHOST
6:16
Y lo que hicieron con Frances Farmer fue una aberración.
EnriqueHOST
6:20
Vamos a continuar.
EnriqueHOST
6:22
Cuarenta y cinco de cincuenta: abusos en instituciones mentales.
EnriqueHOST
8:24
¿Os dais cuenta? Entonces, leamos bien la frase de Kurt: "Fue enviada a una institución mental, le hicieron una lobotomía y fue abusada todos los días durante años, sufriendo abusos totales".
EnriqueHOST
8:40
Todo por exponer las verdades de los que dirigen Hollywood, de todas las tácticas de manipulación mental, de cómo está de corrupta esa industria.
EnriqueHOST
8:51
Por eso se identificaba tanto Kurt y la defendía a Frances Farmer.
EnriqueHOST
8:55
Continúa.
EB JohnsonHOST
40:22
The most infamous of all spirits said to roam the Knickerbocker Hotel, though, is one of the most tragic residents of both Hollywood and the old hotel.
EB JohnsonHOST
40:30
Her name, immortalized in a million songs and stories, was Frances Farmer, and it's here in the Knickerbocker that she is said to continue her last stand.
EB JohnsonHOST
40:38
Frances Farmer was a beauty from the East Coast who came to Hollywood in hopes of making a name for herself.
EB JohnsonHOST
40:43
She got into the pictures easily enough, but soon developed a reputation for being, quote-unquote, "difficult" as a woman who wouldn't put up with the games.
EB JohnsonHOST
40:51
Farmer got continually pushed around and harassed in Hollywood, which eventually led to a drinking and barbiturate problem.
EB JohnsonHOST
41:39
The confrontation ended with Farmer wrapped in a shower curtain and being carried, kicking and screaming, through the lobby of the Knickerbocker Hotel.
EB JohnsonHOST
41:47
She was thrown in the back of a police car and hurried away.
EB JohnsonHOST
41:50
Frances Farmer would go on to suffer years of forced confinement in truly brutal mental health facilities after this incident.
EnriqueHOST
6:48
Mucho de eso tiene que ver con apuñalar, disparar a alguien y zombis».
EnriqueHOST
6:54
Bien, es importante porque ya me reservé de las cincuenta, las diez más potentes para el final, que son de cuando hace referencia a Frances Farmer.
EnriqueHOST
7:06
Mmm.
EnriqueHOST
7:07
Y todos veréis cómo tiene un vínculo con los abusos y el ejercer cierta violencia contra los más inocentes, como luego veréis.

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EnriqueHOST
119:54
Atentos.
EnriqueHOST
119:56
La cuarenta y uno.
EnriqueHOST
119:57
Kurt Cobain nos dejó esta perla: la venganza de Frances Farmer.
EnriqueHOST
120:04
Este vídeo l-- fui yo el primero en traducirlo al castellano hace muchísimos años ya.
Adam Tex DavisHOST
35:53
I had seen the movie about her.
Adam Tex DavisHOST
35:56
But Frances Farmer-
Bruce VilanchHOST
35:58
Ah
Adam Tex DavisHOST
35:59
... is in a dual role in that movie Come and Get It.
Bruce VilanchHOST
36:30
Right
Adam Tex DavisHOST
36:30
... with Jessica Lange.
Adam Tex DavisHOST
36:32
And I'm, like, looking at the actual Frances Farmer.
Bruce VilanchHOST
36:35
Mm-hmm.
Lena DunhamHOST
35:42
She walked, and apparently after her first screen test, Hawks tried to pull the old Hollywood makeover routine on Myla.
Lena DunhamHOST
35:48
Remember Judy Garland and Frances Farmer? And he's reported to have said, "You need your teeth fixed." She had never been to a dentist in her life.
Lena DunhamHOST
35:55
Myla waited around for a week or so after this public trial, anxious and probably feeling horrible, and then she walked out on her contract.
Alissa BennettHOST
36:02
And it's like a, a little detail, but it's a detail that I think speaks to the broader narrative of her life where someone is like, "You have to conf- you have to do this thing to conform.

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