Boy Wonder awkwardly attempts to make an artistic film using an actress under the influence of heroin and an actor who becomes increasingly frustrated with the director and all of his poetic talk, much of which he admits he doesn't understand.
She is now the star in the first of his six-picture deal.
Richard Dreyfuss personally appealed the decision.
She passed away in August 2004 from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease.
Born in Seattle, Washington, to well-to-do parents, Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington.
If you look fast, you can see her in bit parts in Viva Las Vegas 1964; with Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret and The Glass Bottom Boat 1966; with Doris Day and Rod Taylor.