9780960223213 - Look Back in Love by Edith Farmer Elliot (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Second printing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Softcover. VG, signed on the first blank page. (loc Nursey).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Flat signed by author on blank preliminary page. Author has hand-corrected address on title page and stamped a new address. Trace of dust soiling to white covers, otherwise as new. Flat spine not creased. Appears to be an unread copy. Trade paperback original. The story of actress FRANCES FARMER and her family as told by her sister. Signed by Author(s).

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. [10], 275, [1] pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Rare surviving copy. Signed by the author on the fep. Ink notation on the title page changing the address of Gemaia Press from Portland, Oregon to Sequim, Washington. This was written by Frances' sister, in part in response/reaction to Frances's alleged autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? 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. After graduating, she began performing in stock theater before signing a film contract with Paramount Pictures on her 22nd birthday in September 1935. She made her film debut in the B film Too Many Parents (1936), followed by another B picture, Border Flight, before being given the lead role opposite Bing Crosby in the musical Western Rhythm on the Range (1936). Unhappy with the opportunities the studio gave her, Farmer returned to stock theater in 1937 before being cast in the original Broadway production of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy, staged by New York City's Group Theatre. She followed this with two Broadway productions directed by Elia Kazan in 1939, but a battle with depression and binge drinking caused her to drop out of a subsequent Ernest Hemingway stage adaptation. Farmer returned to Los Angeles, earning supporting roles in the comedy World Premiere (1941) and the film noir Among the Living (1941). In 1942, publicity of her reportedly erratic behavior began to surface, and after several arrests and committals to psychiatric institutions, Farmer was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. At the request of her family, particularly her mother, she was committed to an institution in her home state of Washington, where she remained a patient until 1950. Farmer attempted an acting comeback, mainly appearing as a television host in Indianapolis on her own series, Frances Farmer Presents. Her final film role was in the 1958 drama The Party Crashers, after which she spent the majority of the 1960s occasionally performing in local theater productions staged by Purdue University. In the spring of 1970, she was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, from which she died on August 1, 1970, aged 56. Farmer has been the subject of two feature films and several books focusing on her time spent institutionalized, during which she claimed to have been subjected to systematic abuse. Her posthumously released, ghostwritten autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? (1972), details these claims, but has been exposed as a largely fictional work by a friend of Farmer's to clear debts. A 1982 biographical film based on this book depicted these events as true, resulting in renewed interest in her life and career. Exclusive First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing/possibly only printing.