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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.
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.
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.

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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.
Fonda continued to act into the early 1980s, though all but one of the productions he was featured in before his death were for television.
Fonda won an Academy Award for his work with Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond ( 1981 film ) | On Golden PondOn Golden Pond in 1981, the film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda.
Fonda was married five times and had three children, one of them being adopted.
On the set of Jezebel Wyler forced Henry Fonda through 40 takes of one particular scene, his only guidance being " Again!
In September 2009, Fonda was one of over 1, 500 signatories to a letter protesting the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival's spotlight on Tel Aviv.
In 2004 Fonda was awarded the Women's eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century award as one of Seven Who Change Their Worlds
It included two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis, Born to Be Wild ( 1995 ) and “ Easy Rider ”: Shaking the Cage ( 1999 ), documentaries about the making and history of the film, television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, and a new video interview with BBS cofounder Steve Blauner.
In the 1943 movie adaptation of The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, often cited as one of his best films, he played a lynching victim.
This year also featured Fonda portraying Mephostopheles, one of two main villains in the 2007 film Ghost Rider, but despite his expressed interest in re-playing the character in the sequel, was replaced by Ciarán Hinds.
Another member of the University Players and one who had the comic lead in Close Up was Henry Fonda.
On one occasion Henry Fonda ( then her ex-husband ) had decided to take up a collection for a fireworks display on July 4.
The decade started with Rob Reiner's Misery ( 1990 ), based on the book by Stephen King, with Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan named Annie who terrorizes, in her care, an incapacitated author named Paul ( James Caan ); in one horrifying scene, she ' hobbles ' his ankles so that he can't escape, a battered wife who left her sadistic husband to find a better life was vengefully pursued in Sleeping with the Enemy ( 1991 ), Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ( 1992 ), with Rebecca De Mornay as a nanny intent on seeking revenge against her dead obstetrician husband's patient ( Annabella Sciorra ), Unlawful Entry ( 1992 ) with Ray Liotta as cop being obsessed with a woman he saved, Barbet Schroeder's suspenseful Single White Female ( 1992 ), with Bridget Fonda and her obsessed roommate-from-hell Jennifer Jason Leigh, Harold Becker's Malice ( 1993 ) with Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and lastly Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 ) with Matt Damon being obsessed with, and then assuming the identity of, Jude Law.
Also appearing is Dick Smothers ( only one half of The Smothers Brothers was hired for the special ), Henry Fonda and Michael Jackson.
Over one hundred guests, such as Jane Fonda, Roger Vadim, Peter Fonda, Tony Curtis, Warren Beatty, Nancy Sinatra, Michael Sarne, Michelle Phillips, John Phillips, and Cass Elliot, attended.
" Pic's most interesting element is the positioning of two icons of 1960s cinema, the very British Terence Stamp and the very American Peter Fonda, as longtime enemies in what's basically a routine revenge thriller ... one has no problem praising the bravura acting of the entire ensemble and the pic's impressive technical aspects.
The Depression-era migrants to the San Joaquin Valley from the South and Midwest are one of the more well-known groups in the Central Valley, in large part due to the popularity of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath and the Henry Fonda movie made from it.
Philip D. Beidler opines that " one of the novel's great absurd jokes is that character's bewildering resemblance to Henry Fonda ".

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By his senior year in high school, Fonda had grown to more than six feet tall, but remained a shy teenager.
The elder Fonda played an emotionally brittle and distant father who becomes more accessible at the end of his life.
When Fonda asked for more direction, Wyler responded, " It stinks ".
Fonda subsequently released 23 workout videos with the series selling a total of 17 million copies combined, more than any other exercise series.
Fonda has argued that the military campaign in Iraq will turn people all over the world against America, and has asserted that a global hatred of America will result in more terrorist attacks in the aftermath of the war.
Fonda has in the past practiced Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and more recently has engaged in meditation at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center.
* The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and more
We ask which is more beautiful, the perfectly round belly button of Jane Fonda or Raquel Welch ’ s grain of coffee navel?
The most obvious example of this is the casting of veteran film good guy Henry Fonda as the villainous Frank, but there are also many other, more subtle reversals throughout the film.
During the following years they organized more Fondas, but with time these became more commercial and not as popular as Yein Fonda.
Among his more notable clients were Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ( Switzer's son's godparents ), James Stewart and Henry Fonda.
They give three reasons for this: Maj. Major " always followed the rules, yet no-one liked him or trusted him "; his swift promotion to the rank of Major where he then remains is " a clear foreshadowing of the Peter Principle "; and the anathema to Maj. Major of being identified with Fonda, a symbol of competence, causes Maj. Major to retreat from everyone around him, making efforts to hide and to become, in the novel's words, a recluse "&# 91 ; i &# 93 ; n the midst of a few foreign acres teeming with more than two hundred people ".
As a result, she was offered more substantial roles in such films as Too Much, Too Soon, where she portrayed Diana Barrymore, Man of a Thousand Faces ( with James Cagney ), and Warlock ( with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark ).
While the mohawk hairstyle takes its name from the people of the Mohawk nation, an indigenous people of North America who originally inhabited the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York, the association comes from Hollywood and more specifically from the popular 1939 movie, Drums Along the Mohawk starring Henry Fonda.
Film veterans such as Michael Madsen, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Danny Trejo, Gary Busey, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Penn, James Woods, Joe Pantoliano, Jenna Jameson, Frank Vincent, Robert Loggia, Kyle MacLachlan, Phil Collins and Peter Fonda have all voiced major characters, and the series is critically acclaimed and commercially successful, having sold more than 114 million units,.
( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!
In 1947, together with former Group Theatre members Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis, she founded The Actor's Studio, which trained Marlon Brando, James Dean, Jerome Robbins, Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Bea Arthur, and many more.
In 1960, he was seen onstage again with Fonda in Critic's Choice and was teamed once more with Fonda in 1968 for the gripping film drama The Boston Strangler.
His films include the film noir classic The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), the 1960 Hitchcock thriller Psycho and the 1960 drama Elmer Gantry, but some of his more memorable roles were in westerns such as the acclaimed Winchester ' 73 ( 1950 ) and The Far Country ( 1955 ), both with James Stewart, and The Tin Star, with Henry Fonda ( 1957 ).

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