Throughout his forty-five year career, Henry Fonda-a stable, reassuring archetype of the American male-never gave a bad performance, immortalizing himself in such films as Young Mr. Lincoln, The Grapes of Wrath, and Mister Roberts. The torments of his introverted private life vied with his on-screen dilemmas. Personal dramas included five wives (two of whom committed suicide) and involvements in many of the seminal events (including active service in the Navy during World War II) of the 20th Century. His affairs starred such mega-divas as Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, and Bette Davis, and with his second wife, Frances Seymour, he founded a Hollywood dynasty with movie star children, Jane and Peter.
This, Volume One (1905-1960) covers Henry’s origins in Depression-era Nebraska, his rise to fame, his complicated dynamics with other celebrities, and his middle-aged years navigating his passion for acting with the business realities of Hollywood.
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Chapter 1: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FONDAS.
Chapter 2: SURVIVING MARGARET SULLAVAN & THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
Chapter 3: YOUNG HENRY FACES THE PERILS AND DEBAUCHERIESOF THE GREAT WHITE WAY
Chapter 4: REACTING TO HOLLYWOOD-Henry becomes a working movie star
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Chapter 5: LOVE, POLITICS, & SHOW BIZ.
Chapter 6: HOW, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, HENRY FONDA DID IT HIS WAY.
Chapter 7: STARTING A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY; BECOMING A MOVIE STAR.
Chapter 8 WAR IN EUROPE, THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
Chapter 9 MORE ABOUT ZANUCK, LOVING LUCY, TALES OF MANHATTAN, and THE OX-BOW INCIDENT.
Chapter10 A MATURE & DOMESTICATED FATHER OF THREE JOINS THE NAVY. How Henry Fonda Got
Drenched in the Blood Baths of the South Pacific, and the obstacles he faced after the war, back in Hollywood
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Chapter11 ONSTAGE WITH MR. ROBERTS, BATTLING COCHISE & THE INDIANS WITH JOHN FORD, and the stupid,
pointless suicide of Frances Seymour Fonda. Introducing Susan Blanchard.
Chapter12 HENRY RETURNS TO BROADWAY. More about Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Dick Powell, June Allyson, and a sometimes unsavory Charles Laughton, ‘Tedium at Sea’ (a cinematic adaptation of Mr. Roberts, and Dino De Laurentiis’ WAR AND PEACE.
Chapter13 HOLLYWOOD ON THE TIBER: THE FONDAS INVADE ROME.
Chapter 14 PLAYTIME ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, and MORE ABOUT AFDERA FRANCHETTI. Susan Strasberg, Bancroft on
Broadway launches her as a superstar.
Chapter15 JANE: Sleeping around Paris with the New Wave; Warren Beatty, and Anthony Perkins. Arguments with Shelley Winters, and what happened when Jane inherited a chunk of her late mother’s estate.
Chapter16 HENRY DIVORCES HIS BARONESS and marries the woman of his dreams
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Fascinated by the sociology and political ironies of the 20th Century’s entertainment industry, and recipient of many literary awards, Darwin Porter is the most prolific author of celebrity biographies in the world.
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