After she was "cured" and released from Western State Hospital on July 3, 1944, Frances Farmer moved back in with her mother. However, in 1945 she was readmitted to the hospital. She would not leave for five years. In 1950, Farmer was released on the hospital's equivalent of parole, but she was not officially discharged until 1953.
Her long-term hospital stay was of no interest to the press, and she dropped off The Seattle Times' and Seattle P-I's radars as suddenly as she had appeared. As a patient, Farmer lost her 'glamor,' as well as her ability to cause mayhem, and she subsequently lost all press appeal.
I was unable to locate any articles from 1945 or 1950 in either The Seattle Times or Seattle P-I covering her re-admittance to or release from Western State Hospital. The (assumed) absence of any such articles emphasizes both the Times' and the P-I's interest in Farmer only as a celebrity, focusing either on Farmer's thriving (and acceptable) career or her 'disgraceful' fall from stardom. Interest in her mental illness only interested the press so long as she remained famous, pertinent, relevant.
The Seattle Times, 1/15/43
