FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
Frances Farmer Presents was a long-running and immensely popular afternoon television program on Indianapolis station WFBM-TV (an NBC affiliate). Frances Farmer had gone to Indianapolis to appear in the play The Chalk Garden, where a WFBM executive saw her performance and suggested she would be an ideal celebrity to host their new daily series showcasing vintage films. The show premiered in October, 1958, and quickly became the top-rated show in its time period, a position it retained until it left the air in September 1964. It was one of the first locally produced television programs to be broadcast in color. Farmer not only introduced the daily feature, she also frequently interviewed visiting celebrities, people as diverse as Mitch Miller, Dan Blocker, Marsha Hunt, Marge Champion, and her own ex-husband Leif Erickson. Farmer also took her show on the road to Purdue University. There is existing film of her two weeks at Purdue, where she hosted the show while simultaneously appearing in The Sea Gull. Farmer interviewed many of the students appearing in the play, as well as Purdue's President and theater department chairman Joseph Stockdale. The 1986 Peacock logo, designed by Chermayeff & Geismar. ... Frances Elena Farmer (born September 19, 1913 in Seattle, Washington, and died August 1, 1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American film actress. ... Mitchell William Miller (born July 4, 1911) is remembered as one of the best-selling recording artists of the 1950s and early 60s. ... Dan Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American actor and advocate for social justice. ... Two notable women are called Marsha Hunt: Marsha Hunt (US actress) (born October 17, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois) Marsha Hunt (singer and novelist) (born 1946) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Leif Erickson is also an alternate spelling of the name of explorer Leif Ericson Leif Erickson (October 27, 1911 - January 29, 1986) was an American actor. ...
Farmer was born in Seattle, Washington to Ernest Melvin Farmer (English ancestry) and Lillian Van Ornum Farmer (Dutch ancestry).
Farmer's ghostwritten, posthumously published autobiography Will There Really Be A Morning described a brutal incarceration and claimed she had been raped, beaten, doused in freezing baths and forced by a warden to eat her own feces.
However, Farmer's friend and ghostwriter Jean Ratcliffe admitted she had written the book specifically to create a saleable and filmable property, conceding she had deliberately exaggerated Farmer's torment and that most of the finished work was not contributed by Farmer.
Film actress FrancesFarmer had gone to Indianapolis to appear in the play The Chalk Garden, where a WFBM executive saw her performance and suggested she would be an ideal celebrity to host their new daily series showcasing vintage films.
Farmer not only introduced the daily feature, she also frequently interviewed visiting celebrities, people as diverse as Mitch Miller, Dan Blocker, Marsha Hunt, Marge Champion, and her own ex-husband Leif Erickson.
Farmer also took her show on the road to Purdue University.
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