Cat. #0013454212: FRANCES FARMER

Highly rare mattable inscribed blue fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch blue autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1930s. In good condition. Luminous Frances Farmer charmed in films like Too Many Parents (1936), Come and Get It (1936), Toast of New York (1937), Ride a Crooked Mile (1938), Badlands of Dakota (1941), Among the Living (1941) and Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942). Unfortunately, her increasingly stormy personal antics would force her promising career to a screeching halt:  In 1939, she began drinking heavily, behaving erratically and not showing up to film shoots, culminating in her losing the support of studio heads by walking out of a Broadway-bound play by Ernest Hemingway. In 1942, Farmer was arrested for driving with her headlights too brightly lit in a wartime dim-out zone and was subsequently charged with DUI.  When she failed to make bail, a bench warrant was issued for her arrest, alongside an assault charge against her being filed by a st