Henry Jaynes Fonda

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''.

In a much later newspaper mention of him [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=4564143&currentResult=3&src=search&firstvisit=true here] they state that he went to the University of Minnesota and got a degree, his thesis being on communication systems.

The first newspaper mention of him I find is at "The Strand" when he played Major John Hay secretary to Abraham Lincoln, played by George Billings.  Answers.com [http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-fonda here] states that they toured for three months, after which he returning to Omaha became "assistant director at the Omaha Community Playhouse."  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.  Henry, lived many aspiring actors and singers, worked part-time, during this time, as a male model for artists.  A newspaper article dated 13 Jul 1930 puts a maximal date on when Henry married Margaret as it states : "Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan, married and divorced, are going together again...."