Jane Lillig

Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.

Hollywood, années 30. La vedette Frances Farmer scandalise par son anti-conformisme : voyage à Moscou, de multiples liaisons, et un penchant pour l'alcool et la drogue. Comédienne de talent, elle connaît la gloire mais Hollywood va s'acharner à briser sa carrière en l'enfermant dans des rôles de second plan. Sa mère décide de la faire interner.

Angela, a beautiful and high spirited girl, has found her true love at last in the dashing Harrison, heir to a department store fortune. But Angela, who is a shop-girl at the store, must contend with Harrison's mother, owner of the chain. If Harrison defies his mother and continues his passionate alliance with Angela, he threatens to lose a life of wealth. But if he obeys his domineering mother, he may lose the only true love of his life.