Frances Farmer
Might have been nuts. Probably never actually received a lobotomy. Kurt Cobain named his daughter after Frances McKee of the Vaselines, not Frances Farmer, although he did write the song Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Drowned Youth: Part V).
"I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped to straitjackets and half drowned in ice baths."
Timeline
| 19 Sep 1913 |
Frances Farmer born, Seattle WA. |
| 2 May 1931 |
The Scholastic publishes "God Dies" by Frances Farmer. The high school senior's award-winning essay on atheism sparks nationwide outrage. |
| 1934 |
Signs a longterm Hollywood contract. |
| 1936 |
Come and Get It. |
| Oct 1942 |
Hollywood movie star Frances Farmer is convicted of drunk driving, driving without a license, and disobeying World War II blackout restrictions in Santa Monica, California. |
| 14 Jan 1943 |
Frances Farmer is sentenced to six months in the L.A. County Jail for violating probation. Farmer reacts poorly to the news, punching a cop in the jaw as he was trying to take her away. |
| 1944 |
Frances Farmer committed to Western State Hospital, Steilacoom WA. |
| 1949 |
Frances Farmer purported to have undergone prefrontal lobotomy. |
| 1 Aug 1970 |
Frances Farmer dies from cancer of the esophagus. |
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