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The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda

By Devin , Fonda , Henry;Blackstone Audio , Inc.;Barrett , Joe;McKinney

Book information

Publisher
St. Martin's Press;Blackstone Audio
Year
2012
ISBN
9781250008411, 9781250017765, 9781470832889, 1470832887
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
2 MB (2271476 bytes)
Edition
Unabridged
Pages
1 sound file, 13 hr., 24 min\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1905-1982;Motion picture actors and actresses -HenryMotion picture actors and actresses--United States

Description

Henry Fonda's performances--in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond--helped define "American" in the twentieth century. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway legend. He fought in World War II and was loved the world over. Yet much of his life was rage and struggle. Why did Fonda marry five times--tempestuously to actress Margaret Sullavan, tragically to heiress Frances Brokaw, mother of Jane and Peter? Was he a man of integrity, worthy of the heroes he played, or the harsh father his children describe, the iceman who went onstage hours after his wife killed herself? Why did suicide shadow his life and art? What memories troubled him so?

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