- Director Howard Hawks said he considered her the best actress he ever worked with.
- Her rise and tragic fall were documented in the film Frances (1982) with Jessica Lange in the lead role. She received an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her performance.
- For her very special tribute appearance on This Is Your Life (1950), Frances was given an automobile - an Edsel.
- The actress was the subject of several theater plays: "The Frances Farmer Story" by Sebastian Stuart, "Golden Girl" by Peter Occhiogrosso and "Saint Frances of Hollywood" by Sally Clarke.
- She was the subject of the song "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" in the 1993 album "In-Utero" by the grunge rock band Nirvana.
- Culture Club and Everything But The Girl both wrote songs about her, "The Medal Song" and "Ugly Little Dreams", respectively.
- She inspired several literature works: "God's Peculiar Care" (1991) by Patrick Roscoe (from the title of Farmer's lost biographical novel), the thriller "The Canvas Prison" (1982) by Gordon DeMarco and the collection of short stories "Las fotografías de Frances Farmer" (1992) by Peruvian author Iván Thays.
- Singer Patterson Hood included the song "Frances Farmer" in his 2004 album "Killers and Stars", which features Farmer's picture on the cover.
- Stephen Cush, a member of the British group "The Men They Couldn't Hang", wrote a song called "Lobotomy Gets 'Em Home" in memory of her after he saw the biographical film Frances (1982). The song appears on the album "Silvertown" on Silvertone Records.
- "Frances Farmer My Hero--The Unauthorized Biography" is a rock opera based on the life of the tragic screen star.
- French-Canadian singer Mylène Farmer chose her stage name in homage to Frances, and her first hit song, "Maman a tort", in 1984 was about the actress.
- Following her death, she was interred at Oakland Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Fishers, Indiana.
- Attended and graduated from the University of Washington (1935).
- Attended and graduated from West Seattle High School (1931).
- In 1974 there were plans to make a bio pic directed by Ida Lupino and staring Glenda Jackson.
- Mentioned in She-Wolf in Hollywood: The Story of Maria Ouspenskaya as one of Ouspenskaya's acting students.
- Frances was a member of the Group Theater in the late 1930s and appeared in the production of "Golden Boy" that premiered in November 1937.
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