Saint Frances Of Hollywood
by Sally Clark

Name: Saint Frances Of Hollywood
Brand: Sally Clark
SKU: 9780889223660
Rating: 2.88 (12 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Canadian

What readers are saying

Readers express disappointment with the play, finding it to lack depth and coherence. Many criticize the writing and structure, feeling it falls short of expectations, particularly in comparison to adaptations like films. A few also mention that the portrayal of the central character is not engaging enough.

Interesting subject matterStrong potential for performancesPoor writing and structureNot engaging or coherent

Synopsis

Her star rising as a Hollywood diva, Frances Farmer chooses to join the socialist Group Theatre in New York.

This idealistic, raucous and non-conforming movie star, pursued by the government for her alleged communist connections, was finally incarcerated with the help of her mother at Steilacoom, a Seattle psychiatric hospital, where she was lobotomized and released as “cured” in 1949.

Saint Frances of Hollywood has taken the biographical details of Frances Farmer’s life and transformed them into a mesmerizing and quintessential classical tragedy.

Cast of 4 women and 4 men.

ThemesC812/.54 Farmer, Frances , 1913-1970 PR9199.3.C5235 S24 1996