Henry Jaynes Fonda
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| − | A very young Henry Fonda (Credit afi.com)</td><td>The first newspaper mention of him I find is Feb 1926, when he appeared at "The Strand" playing the role of Major John Hay, secretary to Abraham Lincoln, who was played by George Billings. I here correct Biography.com which incorrectly states that this occurred in 1927. Answers.com [http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-fonda here] states that Billings and Fonda toured for three months, after which he returning to Omaha, and 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." | + | A very young Henry Fonda (Credit afi.com)</td><td>The first newspaper mention of him I find is Feb 1926, when he appeared at "The Strand" playing the role of Major John Hay, secretary to Abraham Lincoln, who was played by George Billings. I here correct Biography.com which incorrectly states that this occurred in 1927. Answers.com [http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-fonda here] states that Billings and Fonda toured for three months, after which he returning to Omaha, and 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." |
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| + | The following year he met and fell in love with fellow-actress [[Margaret Sullavan]]. Her Wikipedia biography [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sullavan here] states that both her and Henry were in the 1929 "undergraduate musical" ''Close Up''. Since this was presumably while school was in session, it must have been in the Spring of that year. It doesn't seem likely that Henry was performing as a member of the college, so perhaps they had outside actors as well. She was then invited to join the University Players. | ||
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| + | "She appeared as Goldina opposite Fonda in the first production of their second summer stock season in 1929, ''The Devil in the Cheese'', her debut on the professional stage." (Wikipedia, "Margaret Sullavan") | ||
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| + | After a year and a half of courting her, he proposed and they married. They lived in Greenwich Village, New York City, but the marriage only lasted about four months. This marriage then likely occurred in late 1929 or early 1930. Again here I am correcting Biography.com which erroneously states that they married in 1931 and divorced in 1933. This as we'll see probably relates to their '''re'''-marriage.</td></tr></table> | ||
Henry, like many aspiring actors and singers, worked part-time, during this time, as a male model for artists. In 1930 a book was published listing some of these model's with their measurements and his name was mentioned there. | Henry, like many aspiring actors and singers, worked part-time, during this time, as a male model for artists. In 1930 a book was published listing some of these model's with their measurements and his name was mentioned there. | ||
