Henry Jaynes Fonda
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− | Henry Fonda worked again with [[Lucille Ball]] in 1968's film ''Yours, Mine and Ours''. Again he returned to | + | Henry Fonda worked again with [[Lucille Ball]] in 1968's film ''Yours, Mine and Ours''. Again he returned to Broadway for 1969's ''Our Town'', and for the 1974 one-man show ''Clarence Darrow'', which ran into 1975. Shortly afterwards he played Adm. Chester Nimitz in the 1976 film ''Midway''. In 1978 he appeared again on Broadway, as liberal Supreme Court Justice Daniel Snow in ''First Monday in October''. |
His first Best Actor Oscar did not come until 1981 for ''On Golden Pond'' co-starring [[Katherine Hepburn]] as his wife, and his real-life daughter [[Jane Fonda]] playing his movie daughter. | His first Best Actor Oscar did not come until 1981 for ''On Golden Pond'' co-starring [[Katherine Hepburn]] as his wife, and his real-life daughter [[Jane Fonda]] playing his movie daughter. |