---
title: 'Frances (1982)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Graeme Clifford'
released: '1982-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 140
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/frances-1982'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083967/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Frances (1982)

1982 · 140 min · Drama, History · United States


## Synopsis

Frances is a 1982 American biographical tragedy film directed by Graeme Clifford and written by Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore, and Nicholas Kazan. The film stars Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer, a troubled actress during the 1930s whose career suffered as a result of her mental illness. It also features Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Christopher Pennock, Jonathan Banks, and Jeffrey DeMunn in supporting roles. The film chronicles Farmer's life from her days as a high school student, her turbulent relationship with her emotionally abusive mother, her short lived film career in the 1930s, her institutionalization for alleged mental illness in the 1940s, her deinstitutionalization in the 1950s and her appearance on This Is Your Life.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Graeme Clifford](https://cinepixo.com/people/graeme-clifford)
- **Screenplay:** [Nicholas Kazan](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicholas-kazan), [Eric Bergren](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-bergren)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Barry](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-barry)
- **Producer:** [Mel Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/mel-brooks)
- **Director of Photography:** [László Kovács](https://cinepixo.com/people/laszlo-kovacs)
- **Editor:** [John Wright](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-wright)

## Cast

- [Bonnie Bartlett](https://cinepixo.com/people/bonnie-bartlett)
- [Woodrow Parfrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/woodrow-parfrey)
- [Rick May](https://cinepixo.com/people/rick-may) as Policeman
- [Zelda Rubinstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/zelda-rubinstein) as Mental patient
- [Pamela Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/pamela-gordon) as Mental patient
- [John Randolph](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-randolph)
- [Rod Colbin](https://cinepixo.com/people/rod-colbin)
- [Sam Shepard](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-shepard) as Harry York
- [Christopher Pennock](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-pennock) as Dick Steele
- [Keone Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/keone-young)
- [Kim Stanley](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-stanley) as Lillian Van Ornum Farmer
- [F. William Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/f-william-parker)
- [Gerald S. O'Loughlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerald-s-o-loughlin)
- [Bart Burns](https://cinepixo.com/people/bart-burns) as Ernest Farmer
- [Jessica Lange](https://cinepixo.com/people/jessica-lange) as Frances Farmer

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