Francis Farmer - This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life (1958) profiles the life and tragic circumstances of Frances Farmer (semi-famous Hollywood actress).Show more

This is an early (live) television biopic resembling something more akin to an experiment in psychological torture for purposes of public entertainment. Feeding Christians to lions, by then, was considered faux pas. More sophisticated tastes preferred watching someone's soul being gradually dismantled on live TV.

Note: this recording was made after Ms. Farmer had been subjected to multiple electroshock and ice bath "treatments." Her defiance towards her perceived persecutors (real and/or imagined), as tentatively exhibited here, is no less an act of remarkable courage and allegiance to one's ultimate authority in life, that is, the unique frame of reference, freedom and responsibility of the individual soul.