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Frances Farmer

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The nicest thing I can say about Frances Farmer is that she is unbearable.
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Director William Wyler, after working with her on the film Come and Get It (1936), as quoted in Blackface to Blacklist : Al Jolson, Larry Parks, and The Jolson Story (1998) by Doug McClelland

 
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