Fonda got the nod for the lead role in You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), also costarring Sidney, and directed by Fritz Lang.

Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland were among the actors who paid tribute, with de Havilland commenting that Davis " got the roles I always wanted ".

The part of lawyer George Hanson in the Peter Fonda – Dennis Hopper road movie Easy Rider was written for Torn by Terry Southern ( who was a close friend ), but according to Southern's biographer Lee Hill, Torn withdrew from the project after he and co-director Dennis Hopper got into a bitter argument in a New York restaurant.

Fox got Peter Fonda interested in the project, and Nicholson hired English director John Hough.

The Fondas were among the first Dutch population to settle in what is now upstate New York, establishing the town of Fonda, New York.

Fonda played Wyatt Earp in John Ford's My Darling Clementine ( 1946 ) and appeared in the film Fort Apache ( 1948 ) as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role.

In 1957, Fonda made his first foray into production with 12 Angry Men, based on a teleplay and a script by Reginald Rose and directed by Sidney Lumet.

In 1976, Fonda appeared in several notable television productions, the first being Collision Course, the story of the volatile relationship between President Harry Truman ( E. G. Marshall ) and General MacArthur ( Fonda ), produced by ABC.

Fonda met his future wife Frances at Denham Studios in England on the set of Wings of the Morning, the first British picture to be filmed in technicolor.

Drums Along the Mohawk ( 1939 ) with Henry Fonda was Colbert's first color film.

Fonda won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1971, playing a high-class call girl, Bree Daniels, in the murder mystery Klute.

In 1982, Fonda released her first exercise video, titled Jane Fonda's Workout, inspired by her best-selling book, Jane Fonda's Workout Book.

In 2009, Fonda returned to theater with her first Broadway performance since 1963, playing Katherine Brandt in Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations.

Fonda married her first husband Roger Vadim in 1965.

Bachelor Mother was adapted as a radio play on several occasions, including five broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater: the first starred Laraine Day, Henry Fonda and Charles Coburn ( February 1, 1942 ); the second starred Ann Sothern and Fred MacMurray ( November 23, 1942 ); the third starred Ginger Rogers, Francis X. Bushman and David Niven ( May 6, 1946 ); the fourth starred Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten and Charles Coburn ( April 28, 1949 ); the fifth starred Ann Sothern and Robert Stack ( April 20, 1952 ).

In late 1963, Vadim moved in with 26-year-old American film star Jane Fonda, whom he had first met in 1955.

Coming Home was conceived by Jane Fonda as the first feature for her own production company, IPC Films ( for Indochina Peace Campaign ), in association with Bruce Gilbert, an old friend from her protest days.

Offutt was brought to popular attention during its SAC period when the command was depicted in the 1955 film Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart, the 1963 film A Gathering of Eagles starring Rock Hudson, and 1964's Fail-Safe starring Henry Fonda ( which not only claimed to show portions of the base but also a nearby Omaha neighborhood ) and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb starring Peter Sellers ( which depicts a nuclear first strike from a mad general at the fictional Burpelson Air Force Base ).

:" Early records show the family ensconced in northern Italy in the 16th century where they fought on the side of the Reformation, fled to Holland, intermarried with Dutch burghers ' daughters, picked up the first names of the Low Countries, but retained the Italianate " Fonda ".

For the same studio he played a supporting role in his first Technicolor film, Jesse James ( 1939 ), a lavish highly romanticized account of the famous outlaw ( Tyrone Power ) and his brother Frank ( Henry Fonda ).

He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda ( by first wife Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich ).

Fonda called 9-1-1 for first responders, who after reaching the area, explained that the deceased had committed suicide 3 days earlier in the car.

In 1959, Lear created his first television series starring Henry Fonda, a half-hour western for Revue Studios called The Deputy.

The script contained a role she thought might be ideal for Stewart, who was best friends with Sullavan's first husband, actor Henry Fonda.

After the war, Fonda took a break from movies and attended Hollywood parties and enjoyed civilian life.

Hallie Martin ( Jane Fonda ), a television reporter eager to be the first to break the Rising Star story, locates Sonny and follows him on his unusual quest through the countryside.

Then, two months after Army of Darkness was finished, a round of re-shoots began in Santa Monica and involved Ash in the windmill and the scenes with Bridget Fonda done for very little money.

Three months before the film's release, Bogart as Queeg appeared on the cover of TIME magazine, while on Broadway Henry Fonda was starring in the stage version ( in a different role ), both of which generated strong publicity for the film.

Fonda was one of more than 50 celebrities who signed an online petition letter by John Greyson in which Greyson said he would pull his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival in protest over the Festival's " inaugural City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv ".

Yojimbo was also the origin of the " Man with No Name " trend which included Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly both also starring Clint Eastwood, and arguably continued through his 1968 opus Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards.

The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas ( was long-time resident from 1967 to 1974 ), Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Gallo, Patricia Chica, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Gaby Hoffmann and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva, and Edie Sedgwick.

The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy .< ref > A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940.

The resulting film included candid interviews with the likes of John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and was narrated by Orson Welles.

The largest one was held in New York City in September 1979 and involved 200, 000 people ; speeches were given by Jane Fonda and Ralph Nader.

For a number of years, Gaynor was the Fox studios foremost actress and was given the choice of prime roles, starring in such films as Sunny Side Up ( 1929 ), Delicious ( 1931 ), Merely Mary Ann ( also 1931 ), and Adorable ( 1933 ), as well as State Fair ( 1933 ) with Will Rogers and The Farmer Takes a Wife ( 1935 ), which introduced Henry Fonda to the screen as Gaynor's leading man.

Henry Jaynes Fonda ( May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982 ) was an American film and stage actor.

Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity.

Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, to advertising-printing jobber William Brace Fonda and his wife, Elma Herberta ( née Jaynes ), in the second year of their marriage.

Fonda was brought up as a Christian Scientist, though he was baptized an Episcopalian at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Grand Island.

Fonda was a bashful, short boy who tended to avoid girls, except his sisters, and was a good skater, swimmer, and runner.

Fonda was active in the Boy Scouts of America ; Teichmann reports that he reached the rank of Eagle Scout.

At age 20, Fonda started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse, when his mother's friend Dodie Brando ( mother of Marlon Brando ) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky.

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.