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

by Devin McKinney

  You Belong to Me. 1941. Columbia Pictures. Director: Wesley Ruggles. Producer: Ruggles. Screenplay: Claude Binyon, from story by Dalton Trumbo. Cinematographer: Joseph Walker. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan, Roger Clark, Ruth Donnelly, Melville Cooper, Ralph Peters, Maude Eburne, Renie Riano, Ellen Lowe, Mary Treen, Gordon Jones, Fritz Feld, Paul Harvey.

  Rings on Her Fingers. 1942. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Producer: Milton Sperling. Screenplay: Ken Englund, from story by Robert Pirosh and Joseph Schrank. Cinematographer: George Barnes. Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Shepherd, Spring Byington, Frank Orth, Henry Stephenson, Marjorie Gateson, George Lessey, Iris Adrian, Harry Hayden.

  The Male Animal. 1942. Warner Bros. Director: Elliott Nugent. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Screenplay: Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, from play by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent. Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson. Cast: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette, Herbert Anderson, Hattie McDaniel, Ivan F. Simpson, Don DeFore, Jean Ames, Minna Phillips, Regina Wallace.

  The Magnificent Dope. 1942. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Walter Lang. Producer: William Perlberg. Screenplay: George Seaton, from original story by Joseph Schrank. Cinematographer: Peverell Marley. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche, Edward Everett Horton, George Barbier, Frank Orth, Roseanne Murray, Marietta Canty, Hobart Cavanaugh, Hal K. Dawson.

  Tales of Manhattan. 1942. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Julien Duvivier. Producers: Boris Morros and S. P. Eagle (Sam Spiegel). Screenplay: Edmund Beloin, Ben Hecht, Ferenc Molnár, Donald Ogden Stewart, Samuel Hoffenstein, Alan Campbell, Ladislas Fodor, László Vadnay, László Görög, Lamar Trotti, Henry Blankfort, and William Morrow. Cinematographer: Joseph Walker. Cast: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Cesar Romero, Gail Patrick, Roland Young, Marion Martin, Elsa Lanchester, Victor Francen, George Sanders, James Gleason, Harry Davenport, J. Carrol Naish.

  The Big Street. 1942. RKO. Director: Irving Reis. Producer: Damon Runyon. Screenplay: Leonard Spigelgass, from story “Little Pinks,” by Runyon. Cinematographer: Russell Metty. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette, Agnes Moorehead, Sam Levene, Ray Collins, Marion Martin, William T. Orr, George Cleveland, Vera Gordon, Ozzie Nelson.

  Immortal Sergeant. 1943. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John M. Stahl. Producer: Lamar Trotti. Screenplay: Trotti, from novel by John Brophy. Cinematographer: Arthur Miller. Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Melville Cooper.

  The Ox-Bow Incident. 1943. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: William A. Wellman. Producer: Lamar Trotti. Screenplay: Trotti, from novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Cinematographer: Arthur Miller. Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Henry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Matt Briggs, Harry Davenport, Frank Conroy, Marc Lawrence, Paul Hurst, Victor Kilian, Chris-Pin Martin, Willard Robertson, Ted North, Francis Ford, Margaret Hamilton.

  My Darling Clementine. 1946. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Ford. Producer: Samuel G. Engel. Screenplay: Engel and Winston Miller, from story by Sam Hellman, from book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, by Stuart N. Lake. Cinematographer: Joe MacDonald. Cast: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Ward Bond, Alan Mowbray, John Ireland, Roy Roberts, Jane Darwell, Grant Withers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Russell Simpson, Francis Ford, Mae Marsh.

  The Long Night. 1947. RKO. Director: Anatole Litvak. Producers: Robert and Raymond Hakim, and Litvak. Screenplay: John Wexley, from story by Jacques Viot. Cinematographer: Sol Polito. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman, Moroni Olsen, Elisha Cook, Jr., Queenie Smith, David Clarke, Charles McGraw.

  The Fugitive. 1947. Argosy-RKO. Director: John Ford. Producers: Ford and Merian C. Cooper. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, from novel The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene. Cinematographer: Gabriel Figueroa. Cast: Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo, Ward Bond, Robert Armstrong, John Qualen.

  Daisy Kenyon. 1947. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director-producer: Otto Preminger. Screenplay: David Hertz, from novel by Elizabeth Janeway. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Cast: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart, Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall, Nicholas Joy, Art Baker.

  On Our Merry Way (aka A Miracle Can Happen). 1948. United Artists. Directors: King Vidor and Leslie Fenton. Producers: Benedict Bogeaus and Burgess Meredith. Screenplay: Laurence Stallings, from original story by Arch Oboler, John O’Hara, and Lou Breslow. Cinematographers: Gordon Avil, Joseph Biroc, Edward Cronjager, and John F. Seitz. Cast: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Harry James, Dorothy Lamour, Victor Moore, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Hugh Herbert, Charles D. Brown, Eduardo Ciannelli, Betty Caldwell, Dorothy Ford, Carl Switzer.

  Fort Apache. 1948. Argosy-RKO. Director: John Ford. Producers: Ford and Merian C. Cooper. Screenplay: Frank S. Nugent, from story “Massacre,” by James Warner Bellah. Cinematographer: Archie Stout. Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond, George O’Brien, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Irene Rich, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Jack Pennick, Ray Hyke, Movita, Miguel Inclán, Mary Gordon, Philip Keiffer, Mae Marsh, Hank Worden, John Agar, Francis Ford.

  Jigsaw. 1949. United Artists. Director: Fletcher Markle. Producers: Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger. Screenplay: Markle and Vincent McConnor, from story by John Roeburt. Cinematographer: Don Malkames. Cast: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence, Winifred Lenihan, Betty Harper, Hedley Rainnie, Walter Vaughan, George Breen, Robert Gist, Hester Sondergaard. Uncredited cameos: Leonard Lyons, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, John Garfield, Burgess Meredith, Everett Sloane.

  Mister Roberts. 1955. Warner Bros. Directors: John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy. Producer: Leland Hayward. Screenplay: Frank S. Nugent and Joshua Logan, from play by Thomas Heggen and Logan, from Heggen’s novel. Cinematographer: Winton Hoch. Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond, Phil Carey, Nick Adams, Perry Lopez, Ken Curtis, Robert Roark, Harry Carey, Jr., Pat Wayne, Frank Aletter, Tiger Andrews, Fritz Ford, Jim Moloney, Buck Kartalian, Denny Niles, Francis Connor, William Hudson, Shug Fisher, Stubby Kruger, Danny Borzage, Harry Tenbrook, Martin Milner, Gregory Walcott.

  War and Peace. 1956. Paramount. Director: King Vidor. Producers: Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. Screenplay: Vidor, Bridget Boland, Robert Westerby, Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini, Ivo Perilli, Gian Gaspare Napolitano, and Mario Soldati, from novel by Leo Tolstoy. Cinematographer: Jack Cardiff. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oscar Homolka, Anita Ekberg, Helmut Dantine, Tullio Carminati, Barry Jones, Milly Vitale, Lea Seidl, Anna Maria Ferrero, Wilfred Lawson, May Britt, Jeremy Brett, Patrick Crean, John Mills.

  The Wrong Man. 1956. Warner Bros. Director-producer: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson and Angus MacPhail, from story by Anderson. Cinematographer: Robert Burks. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, John Heldabrand, Doreen Lang, Norma Connolly, Lola D’Annunzio, Robert Essen, Dayton Lummis, Charles Cooper, Esther Minciotti, Laurinda Barrett, Nehemiah Persoff, Kippy Campbell, Richard Robbins, Peggy Webber, Barry Atwater, Henry Beckman, Bonnie Franklin, Werner Klemperer.

  12 Angry Men. 1957. United Artists. Director: Sidney Lumet. Producers: Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose. Screenplay: Reginald Rose, from his teleplay. Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, Martin Balsam, George Voskovec, John Fiedler, Robert Webber.

  The Tin Star. 1957. Paramount. Director: Anthony Mann. Producers: William Perlberg and George Seaton. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols,
from story by Barney Slater and Joel Kane. Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs. Cast: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand, John McIntire, Mary Webster, Peter Baldwin, Richard Shannon, Lee Van Cleef, James Bell, Howard Petrie, Russell Simpson, Hal K. Dawson.

  Stage Struck. 1958. RKO. Director: Sidney Lumet. Producer: Stuart Millar. Screenplay: Ruth and Augustus Goetz, from play Morning Glory, by Zoe Akins. Cinematographers: Maurice Hartzband and Franz Planer. Cast: Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Marshall, Christopher Plummer, Daniel Ocko, Pat Harrington, Jr., Frank Campanella, John Fiedler, Patricia Englund, Jack Weston.

  Warlock. 1959. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director-producer: Edward Dmytryk. Screenplay: Robert Alan Aurthur, from novel by Oakley Hall. Cinematographer: Joe MacDonald. Cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, Wallace Ford, Tom Drake, Richard Arlen, DeForest Kelley, Regis Toomey, Vaughn Taylor, Don Beddoe, Whit Bissell, Frank Gorshin, L. Q. Jones, Gary Lockwood, Joe Turkel.

  The Man Who Understood Women. 1959. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director-producer: Nunnally Johnson. Screenplay: Johnson, from novel The Colors of the Day, by Romain Gary. Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner. Cast: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio, Conrad Nagel, Edwin Jerome, Bern Hoffmann, Harry Ellerbe, Frank Cady, Ben Astar.

  Advise and Consent. 1962. Columbia. Director-producer: Otto Preminger. Screenplay: Wendell Mayes, from novel by Allen Drury. Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt. Cast: Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Paul McGrath, Will Geer, Edward Andrews, Betty White, Malcolm Atterbury, J. Edward McKinley, Bill Quinn, Tiki Santos, Raoul De Leon, Tom Helmore, Hilary Eaves, Rene Paul, Michele Montau, Raj Mallick, Russ Brown, Janet Jane Carty, Chet Stratton, Larry Tucker, John Granger, Sid Gould, Irv Kupcinet.

  The Longest Day. 1962. Twentieth Century–Fox. Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, Jack Seddon, and Cornelius Ryan, from Ryan’s book. Cinematographers: Jean Bourgoin and Walter Woititz. Cast: Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Beymer, Hans Christian Blech, Bourvil, Richard Burton, Wolfgang Büttner, Red Buttons, Pauline Carton, Sean Connery, Ray Danton, Irina Demick, Fred Dur, Fabian, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonda, Steve Forrest, Gert Fröbe, Leo Genn, John Gregson, Paul Hartmann, Peter Helm, Werner Hinz, Donald Houston, Jeffrey Hunter, Curt Jürgens, Alexander Knox, Peter Lawford, Fernand Ledoux, Christian Marquand, Dewey Martin, Roddy McDowall, Michael Medwin, Sal Mineo, Robert Mitchum, Kenneth More, Richard Münch, Edmond O’Brien, Leslie Phillips, Wolfgang Preiss, Ron Randell, Madeleine Renaud, Georges Rivière, Norman Rossington, Robert Ryan, Tommy Sands, George Segal, Jean Servais, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd, Tom Tryon, Peter van Eyck, Robert Wagner, Richard Wattis, Stuart Whitman, Georges Wilson, John Wayne, Richard Dawson, Frank Finlay.

  How the West Was Won. 1963. MGM. Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall. Producer: Bernard Smith. Screenplay: James R. Webb. Cinematographers: William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr., and Joseph LaShelle. Cast: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Brigid Bazlen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn, Spencer Tracy, Ken Curtis, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Lambert, John Larch, Cliff Osmond, Harry Dean Stanton, Karl Swenson, Lee Van Cleef, William Wellman, Jr.

  Spencer’s Mountain. 1963. Warner Bros. Director-producer: Delmer Daves. Screenplay: Daves, from novel by Earl Hamner, Jr. Cinematographer: Charles Lawton. Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, James MacArthur, Donald Crisp, Wally Cox, Mimsy Farmer, Virginia Gregg, Lillian Bronson, Whit Bissell, Hayden Rorke, Kathy Bennett, Dub Taylor, Hope Summers, Ken Mayer, Bronwyn Fitzsimmons, Barbara McNair, Larry D. Mann, Robert “Buzz” Henry, James O’Hara, Victor French, Michael Greene, Med Flory, Ray Savage, Mike Henry, Gary Young, Michael Young, Veronica Cartwright.

  The Best Man. 1964. MGM. Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Producers: Stuart Millar and Lawrence Turman. Screenplay: Gore Vidal, from his play. Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler. Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman, Lee Tracy, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Kevin McCarthy, Mahalia Jackson, Howard K. Smith, John Henry Faulk, Richard Arlen, Penny Singleton, George Kirgo, George Furth, Anne Newman, Mary Lawrence, H. E. West, Michael MacDonald, William R. Ebersol, Gore Vidal.

  Fail-Safe. 1964. Columbia. Director: Sidney Lumet. Producers: Charles H. Maguire and Max E. Youngstein. Screenplay: Walter Bernstein, from novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. Cinematographer: Gerald Hirschfeld. Cast: Dan O’Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, William Hansen, Russell Hardie, Russell Collins, Sorrell Booke, Nancy Berg, John Connell, Frank Simpson, Hildy Parks, Janet Ward, Dom DeLuise, Dana Elcar.

  Sex and the Single Girl. 1964. Warner Bros. Director: Richard Quine. Producer: William T. Orr. Screenplay: Joseph Heller and David R. Schwartz, from book by Helen Gurley Brown. Cinematographer: Charles Lang. Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer, Fran Jeffries, Leslie Parrish, Edward Everett Horton, Larry Storch, Stubby Kaye, Howard St. John, Otto Kruger, Max Showalter, William Lanteau, Helen Kleeb, Sheila Stephenson [MacRae], Count Basie.

  The Rounders. 1965. MGM. Director: Burt Kennedy. Producer: Richard E. Lyons. Screenplay: Kennedy, from novel by Max Evans. Cinematographer: Paul C. Vogel. Cast: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Freeman, Joan Freeman, Denver Pyle, Barton MacLane, Doodles Weaver, Allegra Varron, Casey Tibbs, Warren Oates.

  In Harm’s Way. 1965. Paramount. Director-producer: Otto Preminger. Screenplay: Wendell Mayes, from novel by James Bassett. Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs. Cast: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Brandon De Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews, Stanley Holloway, Burgess Meredith, Franchot Tone, Patrick O’Neal, Carroll O’Connor, Slim Pickens, James Mitchum, George Kennedy, Bruce Cabot, Barbara Bouchet, Tod Andrews, Larry Hagman, Henry Fonda, Hugh O’Brian.

  The Dirty Game (aka Secret Agents). 1966. American International. Directors: Christian-Jaque, Werner Klingler, Carlo Lizzani, and Terence Young. Producer: Richard Hellman. Screenplay: Philippe Bouvard, Jacques Gaborie, Christian-Jaque, Jo Eisinger, and Jacques Remy. Cinematographers: Richard Angst, Erico Menczer, and Pierre Petit. Cast: Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot, Bourvil, Robert Hossein, Peter van Eyck, Maria Grazia Buccella, Mario Adorf, Jacques Sernas, Georges Marchal, Wolfgang Lukschy, Klaus Kinski.

  Battle of the Bulge. 1965. Warner Bros. Director: Ken Annakin. Producers: Milton Sperling and Philip Yordan. Screenplay: Yordan, Sperling, and John Melson. Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard. Cast: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, George Montgomery, Ty Hardin, Pier Angeli, Barbara Werle, Charles Bronson, Hans Christian Blech, Werner Peters, James MacArthur, Karl-Otto Alberty, Telly Savalas, Steve Rowland.

  A Big Hand for the Little Lady. 1966. Warner Bros. Director-producer: Fielder Cook. Screenplay: Sidney Carroll, from teleplay by Reginald Rose. Cinematographer: Lee Garmes. Cast: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Paul Ford, Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy, Robert Middleton, John Qualen.

  Welcome to Hard Times. 1967. MGM. Director: Burt Kennedy. Producers: David Karr and Max E. Youngstein. Screenplay: Kennedy, from novel by E. L. Doctorow. Cinematographer: Harry Stradling, Jr. Cast: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, John Anderson, Warren Oates, Fay Spain, Edgar Buchanan, Aldo Ray, Denver Pyle, Michael Shea, Arlene Golonka, Lon Chaney, Jr., Royal Dano, Elisha Cook, Jr., Paul Fix.

  Firecreek. 1968. Warner Bros/Seve
n Arts. Director: Vincent McEveety. Producer: Philip Leacock. Screenplay: Calvin Clements, Sr. Cinematographer: William H. Clothier. Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Gary Lockwood, Dean Jagger, Ed Begley, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Elam, James Best, Barbara Luna, John Qualen, Louise Latham.

  Madigan. 1968. Universal. Director: Don Siegel. Producer: Frank P. Rosenberg. Screenplay: Howard Rodman and Abraham Polonsky, from novel The Commissioner, by Richard Dougherty. Cinematographer: Russell Metty. Cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino, James Whitmore, Susan Clark, Michael Dunn, Steve Ihnat, Don Stroud, Sheree North, Warren Stevens, Raymond St. Jacques, Bert Freed, Harry Bellaver.

  Yours, Mine and Ours. 1968. United Artists. Director: Melville Shavelson. Producer: Robert F. Blumofe. Screenplay: Shavelson and Mort Lachman. Cinematographer: Charles F. Wheeler. Cast: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Louise Troy, Sidney Miller, Tom Bosley, Nancy Howard, Walter Brooke, Tim Matheson, Gil Rogers, Nancy Roth, Gary Goetzman, Morgan Brittany.

  The Boston Strangler. 1968. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Richard Fleischer. Producer: Robert Fryer. Screenplay: Edward Anhalt, from book by Gerold Frank. Cinematographer: Richard H. Kline. Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield, Murray Hamilton, Jeff Corey, Sally Kellerman, William Marshall, George Voskovec, Leora Dana, Carolyn Conwell, George Furth, Richard X. Slattery, William Hickey, James Brolin, Dana Elcar, Carole Shelley.

  Once Upon a Time in the West. 1969. Paramount. Director: Sergio Leone. Producer: Fulvio Morsella. Screenplay: Leone and Sergio Donati. Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli. Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Keenan Wynn, Frank Wolff, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Al Muloch, Lionel Stander, Paolo Stoppa.