Check out Marneen Fields on imdb.com where in Jan. 2008 she ranked 64,000 and in 1998 she ranked 21,000.
Ruby Marie Farris is "A Lost and Found Gem." Photo above is of Ruby Marie Farris, eight year survivor of homelessness, breast cancer, lymphoma, and 64 years of unmanaged schizophrenia.
SPECIAL CREDIT FOR RUBY MARIE FARRIS-FIELDS - IN 1979 JOHN CARPENTER CAST RUBY TO PLAY THE PART OF DEE PRESLEY IN HIS MOVIE-OF-THE-WEEK, "ELVIS," STARRING KURT RUSSELL.
"A Lost and Found Gem"
Copyright: November 26, 2002
WGA Registration: #982295
The true events that happened in Ruby Marie Farris's ordinary life from 1991-1999.
A brilliant original screenplay along the lines of "A Beautiful Mind," "Rainman," "Forrest Gump," and "The Sixth Sense." Written by, Marneen Lynne Fields
LOG LINE:
One day in January of 1991 from out of the blue, fifty-six year old, schizophrenic, Ruby Marie Farris hitchhiked from Ventura, California to Portland, Oregon in the fog and rain and vanished, devastating her family of thirty-five years. "Pea Soup" chronicles Ruby's eight yearlong journey into a frightening world of obscure mental illness laced with homelessness, breast cancer, blindness, and a life threatening lymphoma.
SYNOPSIS:
"A Lost and Found Gem" is the true story of Ruby Marie Farris, a foster child who develops schizophrenia at fifty-five years old, and runs away from her family of thirty-five years. One foggy day in January of 1991, with two white suitcases in her swollen fists, chain smoking Ruby hitchhikes from Ventura, California to Portland, Oregon in the wind and rain and disappears. In her psychotic state of mind Ruby changes her identity to K.P. Dzwain and believes herself to be a wealthy woman from England. She endures two years in Portland, Oregon and six years in Seattle, Washington as a homeless street person living in shelters and panhandling for a living while battling schizophrenia, breast cancer, and lymphoma. After eight, dark, grueling, and discombobulated years she is finally found through Missing Persons and brought home to safety by her daughter, actress, singer, and mystic, Marneen Fields.
One catastrophic rainy night in December of 1999, still homeless and ridden with cancer, a malnourished, delirious, and incapacitated Ruby prowls through a parking lot in Seattle, Washington and is hit by a car. When the driver of the car gets out to help Ruby he notices a massive, circular, size of an apple, tumor jutting out from her forehead just above her left eye. The Good Samaritan rushes Ruby to Harborview Memorial Hospital where she is forced to be admitted as a lock-down patient at the mental health facility of Harborview because she is a high-flight risk with a saga of homelessness. Ruby's life is in grave danger as the hospital staff begins a frantic search through the Missing Person's computer database to locate Ruby's next-of-kin. As Ruby undergoes a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy in an attempt to rid her diseased body of the deadly cancers, the hospital staff locates Ruby's daughter, Marneen Fields who is living in California and working as a popular singer and a spiritual advisor.
In an utter state of shock Marneen flies immediately from Los Angeles to Seattle and appears in court to obtain legal guardianship of Ruby, to make her medical decisions for her and to bring her home to safety to care for her for the rest of her life. It's a tearful mother-daughter reunion as Marneen holds her fragile, homeless, mentally ill mother, who has been believed to be dead, and who's been missing eight years, in her arms. In May of 2000, Ruby who has been to hell on earth and back, flies home to safety without her left breast, with a bald head, no eyelashes, half-blind, and luckily minus the massive tumor on her forehead. Ruby Marie Farris is "A Lost and Found Gem." She is a true victor of one of life's most barbaric battles, and now she's a cancer free heroine.
"A Lost and Found Gem" is a high quality, character driven, woman's survival story. At its core, it's a profound love story of faithfulness and courage between a very special mother and a compassionate daughter who are destined to share with the world their mystical revelations and renewed faith in God's miracles.
Ruby endured two years in Portland and six years in
Seattle, Washington as a homeless street person
living in shelters and panhandling for a living
while battling schizophrenia, breast cancer, and lymphoma. In December 1999 "angel in disguise," Nancy Afman the head social worker for Harborview Memorial hospital (shown above with Ruby) reunited Ruby with Marneen, and Ruby was finally brought home to safety.
Ruby M. Farris has been cancer free for seven-and-a-half years, a miraculous survivor of lymphoma, breast cancer, and eight years of homelessness. Although she's blind now, today she lives the life of a normalized schizophrenic who has had the chance to return to society by the help and care of her loving daughter. Marneen's comments, "If only each one of us would lend a hand to help a mentally ill person who is homeless get on the proper medication and become reunited with their family members, the world would become a more beautiful place indeed."
Click the link above to read the first 25 pages of "A Lost and Found Gem." If you are a film producer, DGA director, WGA agent, or name actress and would like to request a hard copy, e-mail me at marneenlynne@att.net, I'll get one right out to you.
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