
180 minutes
2/22/1983
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

Susan Blakely
as Frances Farmer

Lee Grant
as Lillian Farmer

Royal Dano
as Ernest Farmer
Joe Lambie
as Bill Anderson

John Heard
as Clifford Odets

Melanie Mayron
as Sophie

Leonardo Cimino
as Adolph Zukor

Jack Creley
as Professor Williams

James Eckhouse
as Harold Clurman

Jeannie Elias
as Lottie

Joseph Maher
as 1st Doctor

Bruce Ornstein
as John Garfield

Paul Perri
as Luther Adler

Madeleine Sherwood
as 2nd Doctor

Ivor Francis
as Drama Teacher
Rodger Barton
as Actor #1

Neil Affleck
as Actor #2
Donann Cavin
as Actor #3
Joe Pagano
as Actor #4
Sidney Armus
as Judge

Frederick Rolf
as Agent

Richard B. Shull
as Publicist
Keith James
as Reporter #1
Paddy Carol Brown
as Reporter #2

Jim Chad
as Reporter #3
Robert Hawkins
as Franchot Tone

George Touliatos
as Makeup Man

Dalene Young
as Hairdresser

Joe Grifasi
as Wyler
James Cahill
as Howard Hawks
Michelle Leigh Stevens
as Frances, Age 9
Thomas Barbour
as Director

Martha Gibson
as Script Girl

Neil Dainard
as Justice of the Peace
Ray Powers
as Photographer #1
Eric Stine
as Photographer #2
Bob Larkin
as Reporter
Sean Moloney
as Young Man

Alan Scarfe
as Doctor #3
Joanne Strauss
as Nurse
Meg Hogarth
as Police Matron

Angus MacInnes
as Policeman #1
John Kirby
as Sailor
Charles Prior
as Reporter #4
Clark Stevens
as Reporter #5
William Ward
as Reporter #6
Valerie Boyle
as Lottie's Mother (uncredited)
Hayley Taylor
as Young Francis Farmer (uncredited)