I remember this show well, and as the show came on TV just after I got home from school, I was a regular. Ms.
"Frances Farmer Presents" was an Indianapolis ratings powerhouse for six years, 1958-64. Farmer was not merely a "film introducer," she did extensive research for her programs (as evidenced by still extant notes she wrote for certain episodes) and often gave her first-hand impressions of stars and directors who were in that day's feature.
"Frances Farmer Presents" was on six days a week, with Farmer doing her inserts live. Because WFBM was the NBC affiliate, in the final couple of years, FFP was produced in color.
I was a pre-teen when Francis Farmer Presents was on the air. It's hard, very hard, to imagine now, in this day of instant communications and text-messaging; but it was true: I first heard the utterly fantastic and soul-wrenching music of Wagner's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" which was to become the theme music for '2001-A Space Oddysey' by Stanley Kubrick.
