Saint Frances of Hollywood Author:Sally Clark Her star rising as a Hollywood diva, Frances Farmer chooses to join the socialist Group Theatre in New York. This idealistic, raucous and non-conforming movie star, pursued by the government for her alleged communist connections, was finally incarcerated with the help of her mother at Steilacoom, a Seattle psychiatric hospital, where she was lob... more »otomized and released as “cured? in 1949. Saint Frances of Hollywood has taken the biographical details of Frances Farmer?s life and transformed them into a mesmerizing and quintessential classical tragedy.