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Title: Beware misinforamtion about Frances Farmer
Review: The book Shadowland, and the movie Frances, which was based on the book, are a crock. Jessica Lange was superb in the role of Frances, but unfortunately, the movie-and book- are highly sensationalized and will leave you finding Frances Farmer capricious and not very sympathetic. Furthermore, the fictions in both book and movie, are, among many, that FF was lobotomized, and that the mental ward she and her fellow female patients occupied was opened up at night to US Army soldiers for a nights of mass rape. Never happened. There are good sources of information about Frances Farmer, but Shadowland was meant to sell, not tell the real story of the beautiful, rebellious and highly intelligent FF. No doubt she was exploited and abused. The real story is disturbing enough without Arnold's concoction.
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