Henry Jaynes 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 Dorothy who was a friend of Henry's mother, got him involved in the Omaha Community Playhouse of which Dorothy was a co-founder. His first role was as Merton in the play ''Merton of the Movies''. | Henry Fonda was working for $30 per week as a clerk at the Retail Credit Company in Omaha, Nebraska but [[Marlon Brando]]'s mother Dorothy who was a friend of Henry's mother, got him involved in the Omaha Community Playhouse of which Dorothy was a co-founder. His first role was as Merton in the play ''Merton of the Movies''. | ||
| − | 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. At some point during this Massachusetts/New York time, Henry met and was the roommate of fellow-actor [[Jimmy Stewart]]. Henry, like 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...." | + | <table><tr><td>http://www.afi.com/Images/tvevents/laa/archive/gal_Fonda_Henry_2.jpg |
| + | A very young Henry Fonda (Credit afi.com)</td><td>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. At some point during this Massachusetts/New York time, Henry met and was the roommate of fellow-actor [[Jimmy Stewart]]. Henry, like 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...." | ||
| − | Meanwhile, his future wife, Frances (Seymour) Brokaw was "...living in splendor as Mrs Brokaw, in a mansion with a moat on Fifth Avenue..." (''My Life'', p 36) | + | Meanwhile, his future wife, Frances (Seymour) Brokaw was "...living in splendor as Mrs Brokaw, in a mansion with a moat on Fifth Avenue..." (''My Life'', p 36)</td></tr></table> |
===Early Career=== | ===Early Career=== | ||
