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  • October 9, 2008 at 8:41 pm #643001

    JanS
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    Gina….you out there? Gina will know, Tim..here’s hoping she reads this :)

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    October 9, 2008 at 9:13 pm #643002

    Gina
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    Frances Farmer’s parent’s house was located on the 2600 block of 47th SW. The house is a salmon/faded pink color, and has a collapsed chimney on the roof. Quite a bit of overgrowth in the yard.Frances herself did not own a house in West Seattle, though she did live here.

    The home is occupied, please do not disturb the current residents.

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    October 9, 2008 at 9:16 pm #643003

    beachdrivegirl
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    Who is Frances Farmer?

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    October 9, 2008 at 9:24 pm #643004

    CM
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer

    Her biography is titled “Shadowlands” which explains the name of the restaurant. Interesting story.

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    October 9, 2008 at 9:47 pm #643005

    JenV
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    …and a Nirvana song: Frances Farmer will have her Revenge on Seattle

    http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=35925

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    October 9, 2008 at 10:36 pm #643006

    flipjack
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    And the movie Frances, which was depressing as hell.

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    October 10, 2008 at 1:06 am #643007

    ellenater
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    I believe Courtney Love married Kurt Cobain in a Frances Farmer dress.

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    October 10, 2008 at 5:47 am #643008

    WSB
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    And if you didn’t read our story about the Admiral Theater’s slate of upcoming special events, anyone intrigued by the Frances Farmer story will want to check out the Frances Farmer festival Nov. 7-8. Two of her movies, the Jessica Lange movie mentioned in #7 above, plus a local amateur historian’s presentation about her life, and a cocktail fundraiser for the local psychiatric hospital – TR

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    October 10, 2008 at 4:28 pm #643009

    flowerpetal
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    Kurt and Courtney’s daughter is named Frances in honor of FF.

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    October 10, 2008 at 4:30 pm #643010

    beachdrivegirl
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    Random! Very cool stuff!

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    October 10, 2008 at 5:15 pm #643011

    Anonymous
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    Frances Bean Cobain is named after Frances McKee from The Vaselines

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    October 16, 2008 at 5:48 am #643012

    missaudreyhorne
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    More info on the Frances Farmer’s Revenge weekend at the Admiral can find it here:

    http://francesfarmersrevenge.net/

    My good friend Peder Nelson is the “amateur historian” that will having a presentation called “The Bad Girl of West Seattle” on Friday Nov 7th before the showing of “Come and Get It”.

    Sounds like a fun West Seattle-centric even, an opportunity to dress up a bit AND it is for good causes. Fun times. I’ll be there.

    (Also I do believe Peder was involved in the naming of Shadowland restaurant)

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    October 16, 2008 at 7:42 am #643013

    JanS
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    thanks, missa…Peder looks terrific in that website…should be an interesting weekend.

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