Getting out the vote, keeping up with youth Aug 14, 2008
How does a guy who got his start writing for Henry Fonda and Frank Sinatra keep up on what's hot. For a start, he has twin 13-year-old girls from his third marriage, to Lyn Davis Lear, a psychologist and environmental activist. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Encore Westerns Presents World Television Premiere of Remastered Academy Award(R)-Winning Masterpiece How the West Was Won Aug 13, 2008
Classic Epic Western Directed By John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall & Stars Henry Fonda, John Wayne, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark and Debbie Reynolds ... The film features a "who's who" of Hollywood legends including John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Debbie Reynolds, Eli Wallach, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Walter Brennan, and is narrated by Spencer Tracy. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
AFI Names Top Ten Courtroom Dramas ... Jul 27, 2008
AFI Names Top Ten Courtroom Dramas of All Time: To Kill a Mockingbird is the Top Choice of American Film Institute. AFI Names Top Ten Courtroom Dramas of All Time. (Suite101.com)
Levine: Malden musings Jul 26, 2008
A couple of great examples of this which I have recently personally watched are the following: the gangster classic Public Enemy starring James Cagney, where Robert Homans appears as (of course) Officer Pat Burke; the 1967 cult classic Good Times, featuring Sonny and Cher, also features Richard Collier as The Peddlar, and Drums Along the Mohawk starred Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert but also featured Edna May Oliver as Mrs McKlennar. And Bela Lugosi was featured alongside former Liggetts Drug... (Malden Observer, MA)
Broadway, soap opera star Larry Haines dies at 89 Jul 24, 2008
He was twice nominated for Tonys, for "Promises, Promises," the 1968 musical version of the film "The Apartment," and "Generation," a 1965 play starring Henry Fonda. He also was in the 1962 Broadway comedy "A Thousand Clowns," as the brother of free-spirited Jason Robards, "Twigs," a 1971 program of four one-act plays starring Sada Thompson; and the 1978 "Tribute," which starred Jack Lemmon. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
A haunting 'Pillowman' Jul 21, 2008
"The Pillowman," which swept all sorts of awards in London and on Broadway and has now made its way to Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, is not for the squeamish - though in truth the terse, twisted fables spun by McDonagh's authorial stand-in Katurian (here played with a touching Henry Fonda earnestness by Adam Harrington) are no worse than what you'd find in the canon of classic fairy tales. In the unnamed totalitarian state he happens to inhabit, however, ideating is tantamount to perpetrating... (Boston Globe)
More Actors Who Never Won an Oscar Jul 14, 2008
Henry Fonda (1905-1982). Why is Fonda included here. (Suite101.com)
Defense guaranteed, even if you can't pay Jul 14, 2008
The case was later portrayed in a book by Anthony Lewis and a movie starring Henry Fonda, both called "Gideon's Trumpet.". "The right of one charged with crime to counsel may not be deemed fundamental and essential to fair trials in some countries, but it is in ours," Justice Hugo Black wrote in the unanimous opinion. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Eric Lieber, 71; TV producer created 'Love Connection' Jul 8, 2008
He also produced specials such as "Grammy Salutes Oscar" in 1974 and "The American Film Institute Salute to Henry Fonda" in 1978, for which he shared an Emmy nomination. Mr. Lieber's "Love Connection" was a successful syndicated show hosted by Chuck Woolery from 1983 to 1995. (Boston Globe)
Hollywood's version of the president Jul 4, 2008
"It's a cinematic stew of genres: Black comedy, romance, history, biography and psychological studies, melodrama and war films, to name a few. And the image of the president varies accordingly, from the confidence-exuding embodiment of family values of Henry Fonda in Fail Safe to the delusional and paranoid Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) in Oliver Stone's Nixon." ... The president (Henry Fonda) has to make a terrible decision to stave off out-and-out war. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Hail to the celluloid chief! Jun 29, 2008
Both starred Henry Fonda as a fallible man - in the former a presidential candidate at a harrowing convention, in the latter a president forced to make a horrible decision. Since the '60s, audiences have welcomed presidents of all stripes. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
How much is too much? Jun 28, 2008
Had this been a movie, Hollywood might have cast Wilfred Brimley or better yet, an older Henry Fonda somebody solid, somebody grandfatherly, somebody in whose lap you might comfortably sit, rocking on the American front porch. But the Democrats have passed over what might have been a lot of much safer choices and picked themselves a rebel, an insurgent, a disturber of the peace, an upsetter of the apple cart. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
This week's new releases (June 22) Jun 22, 2008
No less neurotic are "Man of the West," with Gary Cooper, "The Tin Star," with Henry Fonda, and the most extravagant of all, "The Furies.". That's also the name of Walter Huston's New Mexico ranch. (Boston Globe)
More of this story Jun 21, 2008
So now Ruscha's picked a movie in which lead characters Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan, though probably not great artists, can ride just fine. Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central Ave., (213) 621-2766 or. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
With 'Screening Room,' YouTube dips its toe in the cinema world Jun 20, 2008
At the Henry Fonda Theater on Hollywood Boulevard last night, YouTube introduced its new "," an area of the site devoted exclusively to selected independent films. The Screening Room will feature four short films every two weeks, as well as the occasional full-length feature. (Los Angeles Times)
Obituary: Oakley Hall Jun 19, 2008
Oakley Hall's 1958 novel Warlock, a re-imagining of the Gunfight at the OK Corral, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, made into a cult movie with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark, and blazed a trail for much of the best modern fiction of the American west. The novelists Thomas Pynchon and Richard Farina, while students at Cornell, started what Pynchon called "a mini-cult" around a book he described as "one of our best American novels". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Put this in your playbook Jun 5, 2008
The story was previously told in a 1968 movie starred Tony Curtis as DeSalvo and Henry Fonda as the detective pursuing him. Hot Ticket It sure pays to be a professional athlete. (Boston Globe)
Movie: Mister Roberts (1955) May 20, 2008
Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney Star in WW II Comedy Film. Henry Fonda had the title role in Warner Bros ... Henry Fonda starred as Lt. (j. (Suite101.com)
James Dunn loves the stage too much to exit it May 18, 2008
Having learned that Henry Fonda was appearing in "Mr. Roberts" in Los Angeles, the 17-year-old Marine hitchhiked from Camp Pendleton for a matinee. "I had never been to a professional theater," he says. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Oakley Hall, 87, novelist attuned to the old west May 17, 2008
Called "one of our best American novels" in a Holiday magazine review by Thomas Pynchon, it was made into a film of the same name with Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda. The book retains a cult following and even inspired the name of a rock group, Oakley Hall. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
More Than Just Average May 15, 2008
At Princeton, he'd majored in architecture, but he participated in school plays, and after graduation he joined an acting troupe, which included two future Hollywood stars, Henry Fonda and Sullavan. After a few years working in New York, Stewart made it out to Hollywood, where Fonda and Sullavan were already established. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Fonda fest at Alliance May 14, 2008
I was picked on because I was Henry Fonda s son, Peter told Osborne ... Added Garity wryly: But being the son of Henry Fonda is nothing compared to being the son of Hanoi Jane ... The evening ended with a final film TCM tribute to Henry Fonda narrated by his children and one last question for the iconic exercise queen from a fan in the audience. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The day Newman dumped a director May 8, 2008
On a lovely summer afternoon in 1970 inside the house the film company built on the Siletz River, I watched Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin and Richard Jaeckel converse tensely at a dinner table as Colla's camera glided around at head level. Each spoke as his or her face came into lens view. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Man's best friends getting man's best names May 2, 2008
But Friedman says the best pet name he ever heard was for a cat whose owners reported him missing several years ago: Drums Along the Mohawk, after an old Henry Fonda movie. Video: To watch dog owners at Point Isabel dog park talking about their pets' names, go. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Obama's Comments Almost Lost to Media Bias Apr 22, 2008
The last time I invoked that delicious bit of history a reader wrote to add that the Soviets had a similar problem with the 1930s movie "Grapes of Wrath" starring Henry Fonda, Jane's dad, as a poor "Okie" (Oklahoma person) caught in the poverty of the era and area which was made much worse by the drought that turned that part of America into the Dust Bowl. The Okies decided to get into their ramshackle old car and head for California to seek a better life. (Newsmax)
Movies show that Hollywood has real flair for saying its goodbyes Apr 17, 2008
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940): Tom Joad's (Henry Fonda) farewell to his mother and family ranks as one of the more memorable moments in film history. Interestingly, the speech didn't appear in the novel by John Steinbeck. (The Augusta Chronicle)
New DVDs: 'Picture Snatcher,' 'Daisy Kenyon,' 'Forbidden Hollywood' Apr 16, 2008
The movie, based on a popular novel by Elizabeth Janeway about a love triangle, is a notch above most cinematic soap operas because of its terrific cast (Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda) and because of Preminger's professionalism and sharp eye for character. Crawford's Daisy is a New York commercial illustrator conducting an affair with a married lawyer, Dan (Andrews), a charming fellow who can't quite bring himself to leave his wife (Ruth Warrick) and kids. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Larger Than Life: Charlton Heston Apr 14, 2008
John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Rock Hudson, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Jimmy Stewart, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Gregory Peck. They re all gone; the only ones still alive are Clint Eastwood, who now sits behind the camera most of the time, and Kirk Douglas, in his 90s and slowed down by a stroke. (New York Times)
Films, photos kick off CALF Apr 11, 2008
7 p.m.: Ken Eisen of Watervilles Railroad Square Cinema and Shadow Distribution will introduce two classic comedies: Preston Sturges 1940 film The Lady Eve, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, and Buster Keatons 1924 Sherlock Jr. ($6) for both films. 7:30 p.m.: Night of the Living Comedians. (Courier Publications, ME)
Editor's mailbag (April 7) Apr 9, 2008
It s an excellent movie filmed here back in 1971 with Paul Newman, Henry Fonda and Lee Remick. You can still see the house they used on the Siletz River. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Greetings from another planet: H'wood Apr 6, 2008
By contrast, many celebrated "good guys," going back to Henry Fonda, would bite your head off if you approached them, and seemingly cerebral elder statesman like George C. Scott would simply turn their backs. Try talking to a comedian like Garry Shandling and you can see why people paid Pellicano to come up with some dirt. (Variety)
Assessing Bette Davis at 100 Apr 3, 2008
Or two subsequent set pieces: Julie kneeling before her ex-fiance Henry Fonda to beg forgiveness, then administering to an ailing Fonda, as if by risking infection she could bury her ego and atone for selfishness. Davis was never more brilliant. (San Francisco Chronicle)
What ever happened to Bette Davis? Mar 30, 2008
She lived out daydreams of life's unfairness (the spoiled rich girl dying of a brain tumor in "Dark Victory"), of the consequences of headstrong behavior (her Oscar-winning spoiled belle in "Jezebel," wearing a red dress to an all-white ball and losing fiance Henry Fonda to the scandal), of being too spoiled and selfish (the vain cluck of a wife in "Mr. Skeffington"). Her films were about female power first denied, then breaking through in a sensory overload of goodness or scalding villainy. (Boston Globe)
Hollywood Assassination: Secret Screenplay 'Exposes' Indie Film World Mar 28, 2008
When she died in 1997, he married one more time to Susan Blanchard, the third wife of the late Henry Fonda ... "Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart. I d go back to work if I could work with those guys. I loved them.". (Fox News)
Starz Entertainment's Weekly Hot Items List April 7-13 Mar 28, 2008
-- 8 p.m. Double Indemnity (Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward Robinson) -- 9:50 p.m. The Lady Eve (Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn). Click here for information about what's airing on Starz On Demand and Vongo. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Mike Clark picks five of the finest Mar 27, 2008
Madigan (1968, Universal, $10): Widmark is an honest cop who is nagged by a loving wife (Inger Stevens) and disdained by the commissioner (Henry Fonda). Director Don Siegel stages a finale that has unexpected emotional force. (USA Today -- Life)
Michigan strengthens film incentives Mar 19, 2008
This year's bash is set for March 29 at the Henry Fonda Theater ... To take advantage of the next Bondage Ball, scheduled March 29 at the Henry Fonda Theater (also known as the Music Box), call 323-657-2553 or email Courtney@bondageball. (Variety)
New on DVD: Oscar winner 'No Country' is totally brutal Mar 15, 2008
Back story: A commercial artist (Joan Crawford) dangles between a wretchedly married lawyer (Dana Andrews, an impressively complex characterization) and a shaken war vet (Henry Fonda). Preminger's best movies are objective, primarily character-driven and without exclamation points. (USA Today -- Life)
Mr & Mrs Smith Mar 7, 2008
This story of two assassins for hire who are commissioned to kill each other had the potential of a 1930s screwball comedy - think Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve or Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby - with a modern twist and a harder edge. But after an OK opening in Bogota when the couple meet, the film becomes listless and often silly. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
New on DVD: Go 'Wild' for Sean Penn's moving film Mar 7, 2008
Due Tuesday: The Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men; Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie; Joan Crawford and Henry Fonda in Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon. Posted. (USA Today -- Life)
Hollywood taboos, and a breakthrough of social consciousness Mar 6, 2008
Studio-system veterans like Darryl Zanuck, Lauren Bacall, and Henry Fonda attended but refrained from mingling with such youthful iconoclasts as Beatty, Dennis Hopper, and Andy Warhol. At one point, as the Byrds began to jam, an exasperated Fonda turned to his son, Peter. (Boston Globe)
The People's Court Mar 4, 2008
Anyway, it sort of reminds us of director Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic 12 Angry Men, where Henry Fonda plays the part of "Juror #8," and convinces the other 11 jurors not to convict an innocent man. With the help of some actual reader e-mails, The Heat Index peered into deliberations during the case of the Public vs. the Shaquille R. O'Neal trade. (AZCentral -- Sports)
Fonda family to reunite for fund-raiser Feb 19, 2008
Poncey-Highland s only two-time Oscar winner has invited brother Peter Fonda ( Easy Rider, Ulee s Gold ); niece Bridget Fonda ( Singles, Single White Female ); and son Troy Garity ( Barbershop, Soldier s Girl ) to share the stage with her as they discuss their films and the films of Henry Fonda with Turner Classic Movies host and Hollywood Reporter columnist Robert Osborne ... We re told that in addition to red carpet arrivals, a celeb-filled pre-event cocktail party and a live and silent... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Pictures at a Revolution Feb 19, 2008
Henry Fonda roasted a pig on one side of the house while the Byrds, hired by his son, Peter, played on the other. The guest list ran from William Wyler and Sam Spiegel to the then barely employed Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Forever hunky Feb 19, 2008
Many male stars of Wayne's generation followed the same path: Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, James Stewart and Henry Fonda managed to reinvent themselves every 10 to 12 years, holding old fans and gaining new ones as they aged. For women the path was rockier and generally shorter, and only the strong, like Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck, survived. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The 800-lb. Golden Gorilla Feb 15, 2008
The year of Citizen Kane, 1941, was also the year of Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, today regarded as one of the great American comedies, with Stanwyck and Henry Fonda brilliant as a cardsharp predator and her millionaire prey. None of them got even a nomination for this supreme farce. (Time.com)
Year of the Rat recalls some of Rat Pack's best Feb 7, 2008
Although he is surrounded with acting muscle such as Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne and an improbably young Sean Connery, Lawford's performance as a man whose perceptions are altered by combat is a standout. Reach Steven Uhles at (706) 823-3626 or. (The Augusta Chronicle)
The good, the bad and the petty Feb 1, 2008
But not for Fonda, whose family lineage includes the late actor Henry Fonda, his father, sister Jane and daughter Bridget. "After graduating high school, my daughter and I were walking arm-and-arm,'' Fonda reflects, "and she said, 'Dad, I want to be an actor. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Ocean liners are often vehicles for filmmakers' tales Jan 31, 2008
THE LADY EVE (1941): One of the great screwball comedies and perhaps my favorite Preston Sturges film, The Lady Eve stars Henry Fonda as a wealthy young man who is the target of a shrewd and beautiful con artist (Barbara Stanwyck) while on a cruise. Driven by both dialogue and constantly turning tables, Eve is as sharp and smart today as it was more than 60 years ago. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Academy Awards Youngest and Oldest Jan 22, 2008
At the age of 76, Henry Fonda became the oldest person to win Best Actor for his performance as the grouchy retired college professor in On Golden Pond (1981). The movie also co-starred his daughter, Jane Fonda, and Katherine Hepburn who won her final Oscar as Fonda s patient, but feisty, wife. (Suite101.com)
Double-dippers and other trivia Jan 12, 2008
1982: Henry Fonda, 76, in On Golden Pond. HEAD-SCRATCHERS. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Read on... Jan 9, 2008
Concert that changed your life: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl, Neko Case at the Henry Fonda, Coachella '07. Guilty pleasures * TV: Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" on the Travel Channel* Film: Billy Jack* Reading material: Letters found on the street* Web sites: Blog. (Variety)
Golden Globe History & Trivia Jan 4, 2008
The oldest were Henry Fonda (76 in 1982) and Jessica Tandy (80 in 1990). The most individual nominations in one year went to Jamie Foxx in 2005 with three (two in the Best Actor category and one for Best Supporting Actor). (Suite101.com)
A LOOK AT FILMS YOU OTTO KNOW Jan 3, 2008
"Laura" plays on a double bill with the severely underrated "Daisy Kenyon" (1947), starring Joan Crawford in a romantic triangle with Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews ... The sprawling political drama "Advise and Consent" (1962), starring Henry Fonda as a presidential nominee, includes a senator who is blackmailed for a homosexual affair and even features the first-ever depiction of a gay bar in an American film. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
'Close Encounters' Makes National Registry Dec 28, 2007
MGM Studios/Courtesy of Getty ImagesAmerican actor Lee J. Cobb (right), as Juror No. 3, wields a switchblade as he threatens Henry Fonda as Juror No. 8, in a scene from the film "12 Angry Men." the film was one of 25 added to the Library of Congress' national registry. Bullitt' Added To National Registry. (Click2Houston, TX)
* Coen brothers back on form Dec 27, 2007
He fills the lower half of my frame, looking vaguely reminiscent of Henry Fonda balancing on his chair outside the barbershop in My Darling Clementine. Brother Ethan meanwhile is more animated, providing a more compact, roving vertical in the middle distance to balance the supine Joel, and tittering where Joel is prone to drawl. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
St. Ann’s Street islands removed for novena traffic Dec 18, 2007
Her four marriages included a two-month marriage to actor Henry Fonda. She had a daughter, actress Brooke Hayward, who was once married to Dennis Hopper, and a son, William Leland Hayward, who suffered from mental illness. (Scranton Times, PA)
Singing, murder should net Depp an Oscar Dec 18, 2007
If Depp, whos not really into the whole awards thing, doesnt balk at the notion of doing a little campaigning during awards season; and if the other front-runners like Javier Bardem, Denzel Washington, Daniel Day-Lewis and Philip Seymour Hoffman somehow get slighted come nomination day, Depp could avoid becoming the next Henry Fonda, who got his due just months before his death. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- News)
Freddie Fields, 84, talent agent to stars Dec 15, 2007
HOLLYWOOD - Freddie Fields, a one-time vaudeville booker who became a high-flying Hollywood talent agent for such stars as Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Steve McQueen, and Barbra Streisand and who later headed production at MGM and United Artists studios, has died. He was 84. (Boston Globe)
Agent Freddie Fields dies at 84 Dec 13, 2007
When MCA divested itself of the agency business, he left to form his own management firm repping such clients as Garland, Henry Fonda and Newman. It was Fields who orchestrated Garlands triumphal Carnegie Hall concert in 1962. (Variety)
Has a new love Dec 13, 2007
" Now, Whitfield County is home to a G-CAPP-funded Second Chance Home. "I can't tell you what it means for those counties who originally wouldn't let us in, who are now asking for our help," she says. This fall, G-CAPP launched its 11th Second Home program in Ellenwood, where young pregnant women or teens with small children can live. Helping to provide such refuges heals Jane Fonda at her core. When Fonda was 11, her mother, Frances, killed herself with a razor. Jane and her brother Peter were... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Hollywood super agent helped shape playing field Dec 13, 2007
template_bastemplate_bas By Robert W. Welkos, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer December 13, 2007 Freddie Fields, a onetime vaudeville booker who became a high-flying Hollywood talent agent for such stars as Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand, and who later headed production at MGM and United Artists studios, has died. He was 84. (Los Angeles Times)
John Ford at Fox Dec 11, 2007
His aim, he said, was to create "auditory imagery, the chance to project symphonic qualities for the creation and holding of mood, so that pictures will no longer be limited to pure and simple narrative for material." Ford's gift for getting the best out of actors especially, in his Fox years, Henry Fonda earned them 10 Oscar nominations. Ford's peers at the Motion Picture Academy recognized his gift: they gave him a record four Oscars or Best Director. (Time.com)
Turner Classic Movies Honors Legendary American Director John Ford With Two-Day Ford at Fox Prime-Time Festival Nov 30, 2007
11:30 p.m. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) - This beautiful Technicolor production stars Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda in a story about courageous settlers in upstate New York ... 10:15 p.m. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) - Henry Fonda takes the title role in this sterling drama about Lincoln's struggling early days as a lawyer ... Midnight My Darling Clementine (1946) - Henry Fonda headlines this exceptional depiction of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the events leading up to it. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Hollywood's fundraising palaces Nov 19, 2007
(Henry Fonda and Norman Lear were owners. . (Los Angeles Times)
