ACTOR

Frances Farmer

1913 - 1970

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Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films over the course of her career, though she garnered notoriety for sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitment to psychiatric hospitals and subsequent mental health struggles. A native of Seattle, Washington, Farmer began acting in stage productions while a student at the University of Washington. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Farmer has received more than 3,373,749 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Frances Farmer is the 373rd most popular actor (up from 382nd in 2019), the 676th most popular biography from United States (up from 730th in 2019) and the 180th most popular American Actor.

Frances Farmer was most famous for being a movie star in the 1930s and 1940s, but she was also a mental patient.

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  • 3.4M

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  • 64.82

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Frances Farmer ranks 373 out of 13,578. Before her are Juliette Gréco, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese, Mylène Demongeot, Trevor Howard, and Margot Robbie. After her are Patrick Stewart, F. Murray Abraham, Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Bela Lugosi, and Jean-Pierre Cassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Frances Farmer ranks 32. Before her are Paul Erdős, Silvio Piola, Bảo Đại, Carmen Amaya, Stanford Moore, and Trevor Howard. After her are Irwin Shaw, Wolfgang Paul, Leônidas, Werner Mölders, Albert Ellis, and Jimmy Hoffa. Among people deceased in 1970, Frances Farmer ranks 33. Before her are Andrey Yeryomenko, Napoleon Hill, Vladimir Propp, Artem Mikoyan, Bruce McLaren, and Heinrich Brüning. After her are Bourvil, Arthur Adamov, John Dos Passos, Władysław Anders, Fritz Perls, and Nina Ricci.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frances Farmer ranks 676 out of 20,380. Before her are Black Dahlia (1924), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Michael Mann (1943), Donald Knuth (1938), Charles H. Townes (1915), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929). After her are Washington Irving (1783), Linda B. Buck (1947), Nancy Pelosi (1940), John Browning (1855), F. Murray Abraham (1939), and Chris Isaak (1956).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Frances Farmer ranks 180. Before her are Richard Chamberlain (1934), Gene Wilder (1933), Jeff Goldblum (1952), Alec Baldwin (1958), George Peppard (1928), and Bill Bixby (1934). After her are F. Murray Abraham (1939), Jane Russell (1921), Lana Turner (1921), George Kennedy (1925), Burgess Meredith (1907), and Ray Liotta (1954).

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Television and Movie Roles

Come and Get It
Lotta Morgan / Lotta Bostrom
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Nov 6o 19366.8 / 10
Among the Living
Elaine Raden
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Dec 12o 19416 / 10
The Toast of New York
Josie Mansfield
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
Jul 22o 19375.8 / 10