A. L. Fletcher
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I write about music, photography, technology, horror, and pop culture. This site curates the weird, gothic, subterranean, and sublime, mostly from the 20th century but sometimes earlier.
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Looking Again at Frances Farmer
I am always surprised by the fact that Frances Farmer (1913 — 1970) was a movie star in the 1930s. There is something modern, hard-edged and contemporary about her image, perhaps because Jessica Lange played her as such in Frances, released in 1982.
By A. L. Fletcher about an hour ago in History
Olive Borden
Olive Borden’s (1907–1947) obituary in The New York Times is short and sober. It notes in the opening paragraph that though Borden made an estimated $1500 a week during her Hollywood heyday in the 1920s, she died “penniless in the Sunshine Mission after a brief siege of pneumonia,” aged 40.
By A. L. Fletcher 8 days ago in History
