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Fonda's movie career has been made all the more interesting by the extreme contrast between the wide-eyed and questing ( though possibly amoral, certainly drug-dealing ) rebel motorcyclist in Easy Rider and the upright war-veteran father he played nearly three decades later in Ulee's Gold — a character who tries to share the wisdom of age with his defiantly nihilistic son and who saves his addicted daughter-in-law's life.
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Fonda's film career blossomed as he costarred with Sylvia Sidney and Fred MacMurray in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ), the first Technicolor movie filmed outdoors.
* Bree Daniels, Jane Fonda's character in the 1971 movie Klute
In the 1969 movie Easy Rider, the leather jacket worn by Peter Fonda's character Wyatt (" Captain America ") has an OSD Identification Badge affixed to the left breast.
The movie is shown occasionally on Turner Classic Movies and is said to have been one of Henry Fonda's favorite roles.
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She started her career early, playing one of Henry Fonda's daughters in Yours, Mine and Ours ( 1968 ) when she was five years old.
From the beginning of Henry Fonda's career in 1935 through his last projects in 1981, Fonda appeared in 106 films, television programs, and shorts.
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Fonda's relationship with his children has been described as " emotionally distant.
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Fonda's health had been deteriorating for years, but his first outward symptoms occurred after a performance of the play in April 1974, when he collapsed from exhaustion.
Without really appreciating it at the time, the Indian movement had achieved through Jane Fonda's presence, a long-sought credibility which would not have been possible otherwise.
While the pilot had been dramatic, with overtones of Henry Fonda's introspective Mister Roberts, Montagne essentially turned the project into " Bilko in the Navy ", and even recruited some of the Bilko actors and writers.
Stewart and Fonda's first film together had been the musical comedy On Our Merry Way ( 1948 ), and they had also both appeared in How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) but had no scenes together despite playing best friends.
Stewart and Fonda's first film together had been the musical comedy On Our Merry Way two decades earlier, and they made The Cheyenne Social Club two years after Firecreek.
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Through the 1990s she appeared in many made for TV movies as well as a starring role in the 1999 Steven Soderbergh film The Limey as Peter Fonda's girlfriend.
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During the production, Southern became concerned at Hopper and Fonda's replacement of his writing by what he described as " dumb-bell dialogue ", and more of the material Southern wrote for the main characters was cut out during the editing process.
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The tall ( 6 ' 1. 5 ") and slim ( 160 lbs ) Fonda headed for New York City, where he was soon joined by Stewart ( after Fonda's short marriage to Margaret Sullavan ended.
In 1982, Fonda released her first exercise video, titled Jane Fonda's Workout, inspired by her best-selling book, Jane Fonda's Workout Book.
Fonda's autobiography was well received by book critics, and was noted to be " as beguiling and as maddening as Jane Fonda herself " in its Washington Post review, pronouncing her a " beautiful bundle of contradictions ".
( One of the children seen in the commune is played by Fonda's four-year-old daughter Bridget.
As Hedy, the psychotic " roommate from hell " who steals flatmate Bridget Fonda's identity and boyfriend and commits murder with a stiletto heel, Leigh created a memorably vulnerable and frightening character, and was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and nominated by the Chicago Film Critics Association for Best Actress.
A tender love scene between Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve was enlivened by a horse, which repeatedly poked its nose into Fonda's head.
After the war, Mature was cast by John Ford in My Darling Clementine, playing Doc Holliday opposite Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp.
The film was produced by Peter Fonda's Pando Company, in association with
Fonda's big, bald biker buddy is played by Robert Tessier.
Although the basic idea for the film was Fonda's, the title Easy Rider was provided by Southern ( it is an American slang term for a man who lives off the earnings of a prostitute ) and Southern wrote several early drafts of the screenplay.
Among his other memorable film roles in the 1960s were as the well-intentioned Friar Laurence in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and as the villainous Dr. Durand Durand ( who tries to kill Jane Fonda's character by making her literally die of pleasure ) in Roger Vadim's counterculture classic Barbarella ( both films were released in 1968 ).
Lennon described it as " an ' acidy ' song " with lyrics inspired by actor Peter Fonda's comments during an LSD trip in 1965 with members of The Beatles and The Byrds.
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As Fonda's health declined and he took longer breaks between filming, critics began to take notice of his extensive body of work.
While Harmonica silently puts the instrument between Frank's teeth as he is dying after their climactic duel, in the German edition his voice ( while Bronson's character is off-screen and the camera is focused on Fonda's face ) says Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod, Frank !.
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While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper tried to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda's mother ( who had committed suicide when he was 10 years old ) and ask her why she left him.
Contrary to their characters in Easy Rider, though — and for obvious reasons — Fonda's Paul Groves acts paranoid and anxious in The Trip, while Hopper's Max appears calm and collected.
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This film inspired the outlaw biker film genre, and marks Peter Fonda's first appearance as a biker-three years prior to Easy Rider.
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In Peter Fonda's 1998 autobiography Don't Tell Dad ( 1998 ), he described how he was never sure how his father felt about him.
Later that year Fonda's father married socialite Susan Blanchard ( born 1928 ), nine years his daughter's senior ; this marriage would end in divorce.
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Fonda had planned on wearing a pair of brown-colored contact lenses, but Leone preferred the paradox of contrasting close-up shots of Fonda's innocent-looking blue eyes with the vicious personality of the character Fonda played.
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She was one of Fonda's favorite co-stars, and they appeared in three films together.
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Fonda's visits to France brought her into contact with leftist French intellectuals who were opposed to war, an experience that she later characterized as " small-c communism ".
Curb scored the music for the short film, Skaterdater ( 1965 ); he later scored Peter Fonda's Wild Angels ( 1966 ) and The Born Losers ( 1967 )-the first of the Billy Jack films-among others.
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Fonda's relationship with Jimmy Stewart survived their disagreements over politics — Fonda was a liberal Democrat, and Stewart a conservative Republican.
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In response to the question “ Which side does Abner part his hair on ?," Capp would answer, “ Both .” Capp said he finally found the right " look " for Li ' l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ).
Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda's character falls in love.
In that scene, Henry Fonda's character refers to " Professor Marsdit ", whose last name is an anagram of that of Raymond L. Ditmars of the American Museum of Natural History, a well-known reptile expert and popular science writer of the time.
In the film, a major nuclear plant crisis takes place while Fonda's character and her cameraman ( Michael Douglas ) are at the plant producing a series on nuclear power.
Fonda's first counterculture-oriented film role was the lead character Heavenly Blues, a Hells Angels chapter president, in the Roger Corman directed b-movie, The Wild Angels ( 1966 ).
* In the 1968 version of Yours, Mine, and Ours, Henry Fonda's character, Frank Beardsley, refers to " Fanny Hill " when giving some fatherly advice to his stepdaughter.
" Capp claimed that he found the right " look " for Li ' l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ).
At the end of this film, Henry Fonda's character wears clothing very similar to his costume throughout West.
Finally, Warlock contains a sequence in which Fonda's character kicks a crippled man off his crutches, as he does to Mr. Morton in West.
In the 1941 film The Lady Eve, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwick, Fonda's character hosts lavish parties in a fictional town called Bridgefield, Connecticut, a town full of millionaires, right outside of New York.
Peter Fonda reportedly partly based his character Terry Valentine in The Limey on Adler, according to Fonda's interview on the DVD.
Additionally Jane Fonda's character gave her brother ( Robertson ) a Nero recording album during the film which was most probably an early form of product placement.
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