Henry Jaynes Fonda

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(Henry Jaynes Fonda)
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Henry Fonda was born 16 May 1905 in Grand Island, Hall County, [[Nebraska]] to William Brace Fonda and his wife Herberta Jaynes.
 
Henry Fonda was born 16 May 1905 in Grand Island, Hall County, [[Nebraska]] to William Brace Fonda and his wife Herberta Jaynes.
  
Henry Fonda was the father of actors [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Peter Fonda]].
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Henry Fonda was working for $30 per week as a clerk at the Retail Credit Company in Omaha, Nebraska but [[Marlon Brando]]'s mother who was a friend of Henry's mother, got him involved in the Omaha Community Playhouse.  His first role was as Merton in the play ''Merton of the Movies''.
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In his early twenties, "...he hitched a ride to Cape Cod with a family friend and soon hooked up with the University Players, a summer stock repertory company in Falmouth, Massachusetts."  The following year he met and fell in love with fellow-actress [[Margaret Sullavan]].  After a year and a half he proposed and they married. They lived in Greenwich Village, New York City, but the marriage only lasted about four months.
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Meanwhile, his future wife was "...living in splendor as Mrs Brokaw, in a mansion with a moat on Fifth Avenue..." (''My Life'', p 36)
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Henry Fonda was the father of actors [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Peter Fonda]]. Jane states that Henry was a man of dark moods and that they "...lived in constant awareness of the minefield we had to tread so as not to trigger his rage." (''My Life'', p 35)
  
 
Henry Fonda died 12 Aug 1982 in [[Los Angeles County, California]].
 
Henry Fonda died 12 Aug 1982 in [[Los Angeles County, California]].

Revision as of 12:50, 11 August 2008

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