The United States has always flaunted itself as freedom, but in the United States in the thirties and forties, the capitalists did not seem to allow a person who had escaped from order.
Actress Francis Farmer is such a being, she is brash and full of life, she hates the hypocrisy around her, does not care about fame and fortune, such a true self, but by the people around her, thrown into the abyss of sin.
From a radiant movie star to a "madman" whose forehead lobe was brutally removed, her life, like a delicate rose, was trampled into the mud, but she always insisted on herself.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > rebellious teenage girls in a distorted family environment</h1>
In 1913, Francis was born in Seattle, usa, to an ordinary family, not very wealthy, but also had no worries about food and clothing.
However, an alcoholic father and a selfish and paranoid mother doomed Francis to a less happy life from the start.
Her mother's discipline of Francis was very strict, so Francis would do everything very well from childhood to adulthood, and she could achieve extremely good results every school year, and she always felt that as long as she did well enough, her mother would not be so harsh on her.
Heaven also gave Francis a moving beauty, which also allowed her to attract the attention of others wherever she went.
Perhaps it was her mother's harsh discipline that prevented Francis from releasing her nature, and as a teenager, she grew into a slightly rebellious girl, and something seemed to awaken in her heart.
She kept thinking about why she had to follow the established rules of the world to live.
At the age of 14, Francis gave a public speech at an essay called "God Is Dead" at an art writing award contest held at high school.
She was a big believer in science, she didn't believe in the existence of God, and she didn't know why people were so fanatical about something that didn't exist.
On stage, Francis read clearly: "I wonder why God is such a useless thing. "God is already dead, why don't people see that?"
Christianity occupies an absolute place in the United States, and Francis's article caused an uproar, with many Christians slamming Francis, saying she should "go to hell to atone for her sins."
Politicians also attacked each other, accusing their opponents of writing the article on their behalf. They argue that the idea that "God is dead" is too evil to be written by a little girl in high school.
Francis was suddenly caught in the whirlpool of public opinion, and many reporters blocked the front of her house every day.
The young girl who is still untouched by this is very distressed by this, and every day she has to hide herself in the room, but her mother is very happy, because she can stand in front of the camera in a pearlescent way, calmly accept the reporter's interview, and live a "star and moon" addiction.
Francis's mother has always had a star dream that cannot be realized, and it is naturally happy to be famous through her daughter, as for her daughter being attacked and insulted, this mother does not care.
By the time Francis graduated from high school, the "God is dead" rhetoric had passed, and she was able to live in peace.
After graduation, she was admitted to the University of Washington, at first she majored in journalism, and by chance in her sophomore year, she participated in the performance of the drama department, which was better than a group of classmates, and was praised by people.
She suddenly found that the theatrical stage was her spiritual soil, and in the spotlight, she could find another kind of self that she had never had before.
In this way, Francis transferred to the drama department, and this decision was strongly supported by her mother, because in this way, her daughter was one step closer to becoming a star.
In 1935, Francis won the first prize for an article in the newspaper Voice of Action, which sponsored her to study in Moscow for a period of time.
But her mother strongly opposed her going to the Soviet Union, because at that time, anti-Soviet sentiment in the United States was high. Despite his mother's objections, Francis took the train alone and secretly traveled to the Soviet Union to experience the different scenery of a foreign country.
It was the first time in her life that she had escaped from the palm of her mother's hand.
In Moscow, Francis joined the Arts Theatre and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama in less than a year. She returned to the United States with great joy, but she did not expect that what greeted her was a gray road.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > bumpy star road</h1>
After returning to China, the 22-year-old Francis acted in a lot of plays, so he was favored by Paramount Film Productions and signed a seven-year contract.
After signing the contract, Francis was required to fully obey the company's instructions and pay a high amount of liquidated damages if he violated it. Francis's mother also became the daughter's exclusive agent, and the announcements were arranged by the mother in negotiations with the company.
Francis is an actor who eats and eats, has a talent for acting, and a proud beauty, and soon after entering the industry, she participated in the play "Golden Boy" created by a famous Hollywood screenwriter.
With her outstanding performance, Francis became a hit and became a hot new generation of actresses at that time.
Francis then embarked on a six-month tour across the United States, visiting her audience everywhere she went.
During the tour, the mother "accompanied" Frances, refusing to go away, and whenever a reporter wanted to interview Francis, it was the mother who dressed up. As his fame grew, Francis felt more and more constrained.
In order to squeeze more value out of Francis, Paramount revealed its true fangs.
The company was full of Francis schedules, leaving her with little time to rest, and also took over many shoddy bad dramas for her to collect money, forcing her to wear revealing clothes to participate in various activities.
When her acting career was slightly declining, she also arranged for her to fake marriage with an actor from the same company to attract attention, all of which made Francis very uncomfortable.
Frances is not without rebellion against the company, and has clashed with the producers many times during filming, but with the contract in place, she cannot change anything.
Francis also confided in her mother, but instead of taking her side, her mother scolded her for not being satisfied and grateful.
Everything in life suffocated Francis, and she began to use alcohol to dispel her sorrows, and gradually fell into the vice of alcoholism.
From 1939 onwards, Francis's behavior seemed a bit odd, often drinking alone, disobeying shooting requirements on the set, and having a strong resistance to filming work, which made fans' love for her decline.
Paramount was furious at the "disobedient" Francis and hid her in the snow.
After being hidden in the snow, Francis was even more self-abandoned, using alcohol to numb himself all day long, and when he was drunk, he would cause trouble everywhere and became a regular visitor to the police station.
The mother would only blame Francis for being angry and humiliated, and never listening to her real voice.
With Hemingway's help, Francis broke away from broadway theater circles and began working to quit drinking, taking on a lead role in two high-budget films in 1940. However, she did not turn over because of this.
In 1941, Francis's stardom really went downhill, and the number of films was drastically reduced, most of them small characters.
But in this year, she starred in the film "Son of Fury", which was praised by many professionals in the industry, but the company decided to give up on her, because they only wanted good-looking, obedient actors, not personalities like Francis.
But the fierce determination is like a capitalist, and when he decides to abandon her, he still wants to squeeze the remaining value from her.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" > fate was bleak and miserable</h1>
In October 1942, Francis drove away drunk after a fight with the company, and was stopped by the police on the way.
Unable to produce a driver's license and drunk driving, Francis was detained, fined five hundred dollars and given 180 days of probation.
Surprisingly, the popular Hollywood actress couldn't even come up with five hundred dollars. Others can see her pearlescent appearance, but they don't know that most of her film remuneration is in the hands of her mother.
"Hollywood actress Francis Farmer Drunk Driving" made headlines, and for a time, Frances was ridiculed by all walks of life, and many fans who originally liked her were disappointed in her.
Paramount asked her to go to Mexico to make a movie first, avoid the wind, and then return to the United States after the public opinion storm passed, but when Francis arrived in Mexico, she found that there was no such thing as making a movie at all, and she was tricked by the company.
When she hurried back to San Francisco, she found that the house in her name had been sold and that her property had been taken by her mother and brother-in-law.
It turned out that in order to control Francis, Paramount Company did not hesitate to join her mother and cut off her financial resources by despicable means.
Frances had no choice but to obey her mother's arrangement and live in a hotel in Hollywood, where her mother watched everything.
In addition to filming, she can only get a meager living expense from her mother, and there is very little free time.
The repressed life made Francis's mood more unstable, and she broke down repeatedly during her work and fought with people many times. In 1943, Francis was arrested for assaulting a police officer.
In order to allow her daughter to escape from prison and continue to control her daughter, Francis's almost paranoid mother did not hesitate to bribe the hospital to let the hospital identify Francis as mentally ill and forcibly send Francis to a mental hospital.
The mother was supposed to be just for the drama, but unexpectedly self-defeating, so that Francis was really locked up in a mental hospital.
Francis was brutally "treated" in the hospital with a dozen or twenty girls, and she could see that some of the girls were as normal as she was, but she couldn't do anything.
She was caught in a dilemma and could only numbly undergo treatment.
Three months later, Francis returned home, but her mother's supervision made her feel that the home was no different from a mental hospital.
She was still treated as a mentally ill person, with limited capacity at all times, and everything had to be directed by her mother, the guardian.
The strong mother contacted the production company for Francis, hoping that she would return to Hollywood again to shoot the scene, once again acting as a tool for her vanity and gold.
A devastated Francis wrestles with her mother a few months after returning home, and her angry mother goes to report that Francis beat her up because of a psychotic episode.
At this time, the court had already received instructions from the capitalists, and had forcibly imprisoned Francis herself in a mental hospital without heeding her own arguments. Francis re-entered the mental hospital, where she spent the darkest eleven years of her life.
Movie "Francis"
Francis was placed in the psychiatric ward of Washington State Hospital, an old, overcrowded hospital with more than 2,700 patients, a severely understaffed number of nurses and doctors, and extremely chaotic management.
In this place, Francis was injected with drugs and spent every day vomiting, convulsing, coma, waking up only more painful.
While sleeping, Francis was handcuffed and even took a shower under surveillance. The day was as dark as night for her, and she was suffering from inhuman torment every day.
She became a "slave" to some people and was forced to eat spoiled food. Years later, she described in her autobiography: "I was tied up in a padded cell, tied in a restraint coat, and half drowned in an ice bath. ”
Even so, Francis insisted that he was not mentally ill, and his heartbroken mother was so stubborn and angry that she had the hospital perform a "prefrontal lobotomy."
As we all know, this is an extremely inhumane operation, the doctor in order to treat the mental patients who do not obey the management of the removal of the frontal lobe, so that a large part of the personality is lost, there are many functions, after the operation, the patient will become a walking corpse, and memory, intelligence will have a certain degree of decline.
After the operation, Francis was indeed quiet, she was like a doll abandoned in a corner, dull, beautiful, but full of scars.
The torture of her around her did not stop, and later, she was even "clearly marked", as long as the guard was given twenty dollars, anyone could sleep with her.
No one knows what kind of torture this once radiant actress has suffered.
In the movie "Francis" starring Jessica Langer, there is an extremely frightening line: "Sleeping with a movie star for twenty dollars is simply the best deal I have ever made in my life!" ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="83" > not willing to die</h1>
11 years later, Francis was released and set free. Covered in bruises, she traveled alone to Seattle, where she slowly began her new life.
The pain of the past was long and deep, deeply imprinted on her heart, tormenting her all the time.
But when she felt the warmth of this world, she decided to forgive her parents who had sent her to a mental hospital, and forgave the world that did not treat her well. She works in the hotel laundromat and takes good care of their lives.
Francis still has not given up her acting career, acting is still her favorite thing, she participated in several TV series and movies "This is Life" in her spare time, people see that she has been tortured for a long time, she is still so gorgeous.
In 1954, Francis married a Seattle public service clerk, but soon after the marriage, she left for California. Perhaps, in her dull mind, she only remembered to flee.
In Eureka, California, Frances works at a photo studio but doesn't want to be recognized by an agent as the most popular actress of the year. Agents rediscover her and help her connect with NBC.
NBC gave Frances a chance to host a TV show called "The Gift of Frances Farmer" and was responsible for conducting interviews on the show.
On the show, Frances, dressed in a smart white shirt, showed the image of a generous female host, completely unable to see that she was a "madman", and Frances also won the Best Female Host of the Year award.
The show was a hit and ran for six years, but eventually ended because of Francis's alcoholism, and NBC announced that he would be permanently fired.
Some people say that Francis was framed, and we have no way of knowing the truth, but ironically, after the scandal, Francis received widespread attention, and the tickets for the show quickly sold out, and NBC had to plead with her to host another day.
Francis thus bid farewell to his acting career in the final episode. She changed her former liveliness and cheerfulness, and her eyes were slightly red on the stage.
She was silent for five minutes, and the audience followed her, and finally, the warmest applause broke out from the audience.
The Los Angeles Weekly at the time said, "People saluted her with the warmest applause, to her despair, to her struggles, to her defiance, to the indomitable soul that was once alive." ”
After saying goodbye to her acting career, Francis made a living doing small business, and in her free time she painted and wrote poetry.
There was no huge stage, no continuous flash, no pearlescent life, but those years were the most peaceful time of Francis's life, and she was completely free from the problem of alcoholism.
Heaven did not give Francis enough time. She died in hospital in 1970 from esophageal cancer at the age of 57. This stubborn, indomitable soul eventually dissipated into the world.
Francis Farmer is a person with her true self, and she doesn't want the world to change her, so she chooses a posture that is out of place with her surroundings.
She rebelled against the world, even if it was a heavy price, but her torch-like gaze and her resolute posture were forever engraved on people's hearts.