Depictions
Jessica Lange played Farmer in the 1982 film Frances, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Kim Stanley was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Farmer's mother. The film contained a fictional scene which depicted Farmer undergoing a transorbital lobotomy. In Hollywood style, the film also omitted numerous facts and added a fictional lifelong love-interest character named "Harry".
Sheila McLaughlin directed and co-wrote with novelist Lynne Tillman the 1984 film Committed, starring McLaughlin as Frances and Lee Breuer (of Mabou Mines) as Clifford Odets.
Susan Blakely portrayed Farmer in a 1983 television production Will There Really Be a Morning?, which was named after Farmer's autobiography. Academy Award winner Lee Grant portrayed her mother in the same production.
In 1984, Culture Club had a #32 hit in the UK Single Charts "The Medal Song", which was about the actress. In that same year, Romanovsky and Phillips released their album I Thought You'd Be Taller which includes the track "Paint By Numbers (Song For Frances)".
Tracey Thorn's song "Ugly Little Dreams" on Everything but the Girl's 1985 LP Love Not Money was also inspired by Frances Farmer.
The Nirvana song "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle", written by fellow Washington native Kurt Cobain, was named after Farmer and appears on the band's 1993 In Utero album.
Patterson Hood, singer, guitarist and songwriter with the rock band Drive-By Truckers, included a song about Farmer (titled "Frances Farmer") on his 2004 solo album, Killers and Stars. The album's cover features a drawing of Farmer by Toby Cole.
The song, "Lobotomy Gets 'em Home!" by The Men They Couldn't Hang from the album Silver Town was written about the life of Frances Farmer.
Carol Decker of the band T'Pau wrote the song "Monkey House" about Frances Farmer's mental illness, which was featured on the 1987 album Bridge of Spies.
French singer Mylène Jeanne Gautier changed her name to Mylène Farmer as a tribute to Frances.
Sally Clark wrote a stage play about Farmer in 1996, entitled St. Frances of Hollywood.
Farmer is referenced in the musical Next to Normal during the song "Didn't I See This Movie?"
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