Fonda later explained that she had regretted signing the petition, saying that she had signed the letter ... < p >... without reading it carefully enough, without asking myself if some of the wording wouldn't exacerbate the situation rather than bring about constructive dialogue ...

Sinatra also had a brief acting career in the mid-60s including a co-starring role with Elvis Presley in the movie Speedway, and with Peter Fonda in The Wild Angels.

The Fonda family had migrated from Genoa, Italy, to the Netherlands in the 15th century.

By his senior year in high school, Fonda had grown to more than six feet tall, but remained a shy teenager.

Joshua Logan, a young sophomore at Princeton who had been double-cast in the show, gave Fonda the part of Tornaquinci, " an elderly Italian with long, white beard and heavy wig.

Fonda got the first break, as he was hired to make his first film appearance in 1935 as Janet Gaynor's leading man in 20th Century Fox's screen adaptation of The Farmer Takes a Wife ; he reprised his role from the Broadway production of the same name, which had gained him critical recognition.

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.

Fonda had a small role with his son, Peter, in Wanda Nevada ( 1979 ), with Brooke Shields.

It was filmed after On Golden Pond had wrapped and Fonda was in rapidly declining health.

Fonda was married five times and had three children, one of them being adopted.

In August 1949 Fonda announced to Frances that he wanted a divorce so he could remarry ; their thirteen years of marriage had not been happy ones for him.

Years later Dr. Margaret Gibson, the psychiatrist who had treated Frances at Austen Riggs, described Henry Fonda: “ He was a cold, self-absorbed person, a complete narcissist .”

Later in 1950, Fonda married Susan Blanchard, with whom he had been having an affair since sometime in 1948.

The Fonda and Strasberg families were neighbors, and she had developed a friendship with Strasberg's daughter, Susan.

Fonda had a maternal half-sister, Frances, who died in 2008.

Fonda said, " I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent.

Fonda had long wanted to work with her father, hoping it would help their strained relationship.

Fonda said that she had " never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us " and blamed QVC's actions on " pressure by some well-funded and organized political extremist groups ".

Drunk, Corso challenged Fonda, using a four-letter expletive: Why hadn't she addressed the shooting of four students at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard, which had just taken place?

Interviews with two of the alleged victims specifically named in the emails found these allegations to be false as they had never met Fonda.

In a 60 Minutes interview on March 31, 2005, Fonda reiterated that she had no regrets about her trip to North Vietnam in 1972, with the exception of the anti-aircraft gun photo.

" Fonda said she had no regrets about the broadcasts she made on Radio Hanoi, something she asked the North Vietnamese to do: " Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war.

During this period, Fonda announced that she would make only films that focused on important issues, and she generally stuck to her word.

" Fonda said the POWs were " military careerists and professional killers " who are " trying to make themselves look self-righteous, but they are war criminals according to the law ".

In July 2005, Fonda announced plans to make an anti-war bus tour in March 2006 with her daughter and several families of military veterans, saying that some of the war veterans she had met while on her book tour had urged her to speak out against the Iraq War.

Fonda found work on Broadway where he gained notice in Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole, before going to Hollywood to make films.

Fonda had secured funding in the neighborhood of $ 360, 000-( largely based on the fact he knew that was the budget Roger Corman needed to make The Wild Angels ), and the film was released in 1969 to international success.

After the success of Easy Rider, both Hopper and Fonda were in a position to make any film project they wanted.

While Hopper chose to make the drug addled jungle epic The Last Movie, ( in which Fonda co-starred along with Michelle Phillips ), Fonda directed the Western film, The Hired Hand.

When Sullavan refused to make a contribution, Fonda complained loudly to a fellow actor.

Beidler asks, rhetorically, what to make of this, given that Newhart's lack of any resemblance to Fonda eliminates the entire joke.

Two film versions were released in 1973: one directed by Joseph Losey, starring Jane Fonda, David Warner and Trevor Howard ; and the other by Patrick Garland with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, and Ralph Richardson.

" 9 to 5 ", the theme song to the feature film 9 to 5 ( 1980 ) Parton starred in along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, not only reached number one on the country charts, but also, in February 1981, reached number one on the pop and the adult-contemporary charts, giving her a triple-number-one hit.

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 ".

In 1966 she also starred in Roger Corman's The Wild Angels with Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern, and in 1968 she shared the screen with Elvis Presley in Speedway — her final film.

* The Fugitive ( 1947 film ), a film starring Henry Fonda and Dolores del Río, and directed by John Ford

The film starred Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinale.

Terence Hill also starred in the film as the young stranger who helps Fonda leave the dying West with style.

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 couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

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

In 1935 Fonda starred in the RKO film I Dream Too Much with the opera star Lily Pons.

Fonda agreed, and was ultimately nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the 1940 film, which many consider to be his finest role.

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.

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