Miss Farmer ‘Very Ill Girl’
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 – (AP)
A subdued Frances Farmer, the film actress, was described by Dr. George Thompson today as a very sick girl.
Dr. Thompson, in charge of the psychopathic ward at the General Hospital where Miss Farmer is under observation, said she has caused the attendants no trouble.
As a climax to a stormy session with authorities, the actress is in the hospital awaiting a sanity hearing Wednesday in superior court.
Hollywood friends of the twenty-nine-year-old actress have retained a physician and an attorney to aid her. They will confer with the actress’ mother, expected to arrive from Seattle early next week.
Miss Farmer was sentenced to 180 days in the county jail last Thursday for violating probation in a drunk driving case. The following day she was taken to the hospital when a psychiatrist, Dr. Thomas Leonard, filed a petition in superior court asking that she be given a sanity hearing.
Dr. Leonard said the actress told him:
"I hear voices day and night and they bother me."
He said she also told him she was made ill by fears that people were "putting things in her food and drink."
This article appeared in The Post-Intelligencer - January 17, 1943
Provided by Ulrich
Fritzsche M.D.