Frances

N.p. N.p., Circa 1982. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1982 film, showing actress Jessica Lange, variously with actors Sam Shepard, Jonathan Banks, Jack Riley, Bonnie Bartlett, and director Graeme Clifford on the set.

Loosely based on William Arnold's 1978 novel "Shadowland," a heavily fictionalized and widely discredited account of the life of actress Frances Farmer, whose film career was famously halted by rapid mental deterioration and a subsequent diagnosis with paranoid schizophrenia in 1942. Arnold's novel detailed physical and sexual abuse and a forced lobotomy during the period Farmer spent in an institution, although his claims have since been debunked.

9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine.

[Book #161057]