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

by Devin McKinney

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  FILMS

  The Farmer Takes a Wife. 1935. Fox Film Corporation. Director: Victor Fleming. Producer: Winfield R. Sheehan. Screenplay: Edwin J. Burke, from play by Frank B. Elser and Marc Connelly, from novel Rome Haul, by Walter D. Edmonds. Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Slim Summerville, Jane Withers, Andy Devine, Roger Imhof, Margaret Hamilton, Sig Ruman, John Qualen.

  Way Down East. 1935. Fox Film Corporation. Director: Henry King. Producer: Winfield R. Sheehan. Screenplay: Howard Estabrook and William Hurlbut, from play by Lottie Blair Parker. Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer. Cast: Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, Slim Summerville, Edward Trevor, Margaret Hamilton, Russell Simpson, Andy Devine, Spring Byington.

  I Dream Too Much. 1935. RKO. Director: John Cromwell. Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Screenplay: James Gow and Edmund North, from story by Elsie Finn and David G. Wittels. Cinematographer: David Abel. Cast: Lily Pons, Henry Fonda, Eric Blore, Osgood Perkins, Lucien Littlefield, Lucille Ball, Mischa Auer, Paul Porcasi, Scott Beckett.

  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. 1936. Paramount. Director: Henry Hathaway. Producer: Walter Wanger. Screenplay: Grover Jones, adapted by Harvey Threw and Horace McCoy, from novel by John Fox, Jr. Cinematographers: Robert Bruce and Howard Greene. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi, Robert Barrat, George “Spanky” McFarland, Fuzzy Knight.

  The Moon’s Our Home. 1936. Paramount. Director: William A. Seiter. Producer: Walter Wanger. Screenplay: Isabel Dawn and Boyce DeGaw, from novel by Faith Baldwin (additional dialogue by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell). Cinematographer: Joseph A. Valentine. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda, Charles Butterworth, Beulah Bondi, Henrietta Crosman, Walter Brennan, Dorothy Stickney, Lucien Littlefield, Margaret Hamilton.

  Spendthrift. 1936. Paramount. Director: Raoul Walsh. Producer: Walter Wanger. Screenplay: Walsh and Bert Hanlon, from story by Eric Hatch. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Cast: Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson, Mary Brian, George Barbier, Edward Brophy, Richard Carle, J. M. Kerrigan, Spencer Charters.

  You Only Live Once. 1937. United Artists. Director: Fritz Lang. Producer: Walter Wanger. Screenplay: Gene Towne, from story by C. Graham Baker. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, William Gargan, Jerome Cowan, Charles “Chic” Sale, Margaret Hamilton, Warren Hymer, John Wray.

  Wings of the Morning. 1937. Twentieth Century–Fox/New World. Director: Harold D. Schuster. Producer: Robert T. Kane. Screenplay: Thomas J. Geraghty, from story by Donn Byrne. Cinematographer: Ray Rennahan. Cast: Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate, Mark Daly, John McCormack.

  Slim. 1937. Warner Bros. Director: Ray Enright. Producer: Samuel Bischoff. Screenplay: William Wister Haines, from his novel. Cinematographer: Sid Hickox. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Henry Fonda, Stuart Erwin, Margaret Lindsay, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dick Purcell, Joseph Sawyer, Craig Reynolds, John Litel, Jane Wyman.

  That Certain Woman. 1937. Warner Bros. Director-producer: Edmund Goulding. Screenplay: Goulding. Cinematographer: Ernest Haller. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Hugh O’Connell, Katharine Alexander, Minor Watson, Sidney Toler.

  I Met My Love Again. 1938. United Artists. Directors: Joshua Logan and Arthur Ripley. Producer: Walter Wanger. Screenplay: David Hertz, from novel Summer Lightning, by Allene Corliss. Cinematographer: Hal Mohr. Cast: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Louise Platt, Alan Marshal, Dame May Whitty, Alan Baxter, Dorothy Stickney, Tim Holt.

  Jezebel. 1938. Warner Brothers. Director: William Wyler. Producers: Wyler, Henry Blanke, and Hal B. Wallis. Screenplay: Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, and John Huston, from play by Owen Davis. Cinematographer: Ernest Haller. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter, Richard Cromwell, Henry O’Neill, Spring Byington, John Litel, Gordon Oliver.

  Blockade. 1938. United Artists. Director: William Dieterle. Producer: Walter Wanger. Screenplay: John Howard Lawson and James M. Cain (uncredited). Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Warwick, Reginald Denny, Peter Godfrey, William B. Davidson, Katherine DeMille, Fred Kohler.

  Spawn of the North. 1938. Paramount. Director: Henry Hathaway. Producer: Albert Lewin. Screenplay: Jules Furthman and Talbot Jennings (uncredited), from story by Barrett Willoughby. Cinematographer: Charles Lang, Jr. Cast: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Barrymore, Louise Platt, Lynne Overman, Fuzzy Knight, Vladimir Sokoloff.

  The Mad Miss Manton. 1938. RKO. Director: Leigh Jason. Producer: P. J. Wolfson. Screenplay: Philip G. Epstein, from story by Wilson Collison. Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraco. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer, Stanley Ridges, Whitney Bourne, Vickie Lester, Ann Evers, Catherine O’Quinn, Hattie McDaniel, Miles Mander, John Qualen, Grady Sutton.

  Jesse James. 1939. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Henry King. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson. Cinematographers: George Barnes and W. H. Greene. Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull, Slim Summerville, J. Edward Bromberg, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine, Donald Meek, John Russell, Jane Darwell, Charles Tannen.

  Let Us Live. 1939. Columbia. Director: John Brahm. Producer: William Perlberg. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller and Allen Rivkin, from story by Joseph F. Dinneen. Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard. Cast: Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker, George Lynn, George Douglas.

  The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. 1939. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Irving Cummings. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Associate Producer: Kenneth Macgowan. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti, from original story by Ray Harris. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Cast: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Spring Byington, Sally Blane.

  Young Mr. Lincoln. 1939. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Ford. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck, Associate Producer, Kenneth Macgowan. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti. Cinematographers: Bert Glennon, and Arthur Miller (uncredited). Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Eddie Collins, Pauline Moore, Richard Cromwell, Donald Meek, Judith Dickens, Eddie Quillan, Spencer Charters, Ward Bond.

  Drums Along the Mohawk. 1939. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Ford. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti and Sonya Levien, from novel by Walter D. Edmonds. Cinematographers: Bert Glennon and
Ray Rennahan. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Dorris Bowdon, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Shields, Robert Lowery, Roger Imhof, Francis Ford, Ward Bond, Kay Linaker, Russell Simpson.

  The Grapes of Wrath. 1940. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Ford. Producers: Nunnally Johnson and Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Johnson, from novel by John Steinbeck. Cinematographer: Gregg Toland. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, O. Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury, Frank Sully, Frank Darien, Darryl Hickman, Shirley Mills, Roger Imhof, Grant Mitchell, Charles D. Brown, John Arledge, Ward Bond.

  Lillian Russell. 1940. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Irving Cummings. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: William Anthony McGuire. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William, Leo Carrillo, Helen Westley, Ernest Truex, Nigel Bruce, Joe Weber, Lew Fields.

  The Return of Frank James. 1940. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Fritz Lang. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Sam Hellman. Cinematographer: George Barnes. Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Donald Meek, Eddie Collins, George Barbier, Russell Hicks.

  Chad Hanna. 1940. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Henry King. Producers: Nunnally Johnson and Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Johnson, from novel Red Wheels Rolling, by Walter D. Edmonds. Cinematographers: Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan. Cast: Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell, Guy Kibbee, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Roscoe Ates, Ben Carter, Frank M. Thomas, Frank Conlan.

  The Lady Eve. 1941. Paramount. Director: Preston Sturges. Producer: Paul Jones. Screenplay: Sturges, from story “The Faithful Heart,” by Monckton Hoffe. Cinematographer: Victor Milner. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Martha O’Driscoll, Janet Beecher, Robert Greig.

  Wild Geese Calling. 1941. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Brahm. Executive Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Producer: Harry Joe Brown. Screenplay: Horace McCoy, from novel by Stewart Edward White. Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard. Cast: Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Ona Munson, Barton MacLane, Russell Simpson, Iris Adrian, James C. Morton, Paul Sutton, Mary Field, Stanley Andrews.