After briefly studying journalism at the University of Minnesota and working as an office clerk, Fonda moved to the East Coast in 1. He soon joined the University Players Guild, a small summer- stock theatre troupe in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where he met, among others, Joshua Logan, Jimmy Stewart, and Margaret Sullavan, who became the first of his five wives. In 1. 93. 4 Fonda played his first leading role on Broadway in The Farmer Takes a Wife and repeated the role in his movie debut the next year. Trained on the stage to project his voice, Fonda quickly adapted to film by underplaying his roles, which gave him a quietly intense screen persona. This reserved approach prevented him from becoming a romantic screen idol, although his good looks and adaptable presence made him a successful leading man in the period drama Jezebel (1. Bette Davis, and the romantic comedies The Lady Eve (1. Barbara Stanwyck, and The Big Street (1. Lucille Ball. Fonda’s frequent collaborations with director John Ford produced a gallery of populist American icons, including the gentle, modest Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1. 93. 9), the dispossessed farmer and ex- convict Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1. Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (1. Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday in Fort Apache (1. Although the typical Fonda character frequently moves in a world of men—the American West, the army, the navy—he is less a man of action than one of quiet thought. In films such as The Ox- Bow Incident (1. Angry Men (1. 95. Their integrity and decency, rather than physical strength or athletic grace and exuberance, provide the impetus for their heroism. After serving in the U. S. Navy during World War II, Fonda starred in several films and in 1. Broadway in the title role of Mister Roberts, which he played for three years and for which he won a Tony Award. He starred in two more successful Broadway productions—Point of No Return (1. The Caine Mutiny Court- Martial (1. Hollywood to make the screen version of Mister Roberts (1. Fonda continued to alternate between Broadway and Hollywood and appeared occasionally on television. On the stage he gave acclaimed performances as a Nebraska lawyer involved with a young woman from the Bronx in Two for the Seesaw (1. Clarence Darrow in an eponymous one- man show (1. U. S. Supreme Court justice in First Monday in October (1. His other notable film roles include those of an innocent man on trial for robbery in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man (1. American president in Fail- Safe (1. Fonda) in Once upon a Time in the West (1. Wanda Nevada (1. 97. Peter; and a cantankerous husband and father during what may be his last summer in On Golden Pond (1. Katharine Hepburn and Fonda’s daughter, Jane, and for which he won an Academy Award as best actor. The previous year he had received an honorary Academy Award “in recognition of his brilliant accomplishments and enduring contribution to the art of motion pictures.” In 1. American Film Institute honoured him with its Life Achievement Award. Fonda published his memoirs, Fonda: My Life, cowritten with Howard Teichmann, in 1. Amazon Try Prime All Go. Sign in Your Account Sign in Your Account Try Prime Lists Cart. Your Amazon.com Today's Deals Gift Cards. The Best 38 films of Henry Fonda. The taped performance of Henry Fonda's one-man show was aired as 'IBM Presents Clarence Darrow' on September 4, 1974, on NBC. Paul Anka, Henry Fonda. Henry Fonda filmography Henry Fonda and daughter Jane Fonda in 1943.
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