Frances Farmer was everything Hollywood couldn’t handle — brilliant, outspoken, and unwilling to play by its rules. Branded “unstable,” she was institutionalized, abused, and erased — a woman punished for her defiance. Decades later, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love became obsessed with her story. Kurt wrote “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle” as both a warning and a love letter to someone who fought the same demons he did. Frances wasn’t crazy — she was crushed by a system that could