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

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by Devin McKinney


  Love to Rhoda, Mark, Lori, and Salvador, and to Mike, Hope, and Mya.

  Last and deepest thanks go to my mother, to my sister, and especially to my father. He died before this book was finished, but I promised him one day it would be. He was a Henry Fonda fan.

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  HF stands for Henry Fonda. Kinship terms like (son) are in relation to HF. Married women are listed under their birth names. Films, plays, and TV shows in which HF appeared are designated by genre.

  ABC

  Abry, Charles

  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

  actors

  neurotic

  traditional low prestige of

  Actors Studio

  Adams, Shirlee Mae (5th wife)

  background of

  Adler, Renata

  Advise and Consent (film)

  Age of Kennedy, The (TV special)

  agrarianism, of Jefferson

  Air Combat Intelligence (ACI)

  Alamo, The

  Albee, Edward

  Alcatraz, occupation of

  Alexander, Jane

  Alexander, Ross

  suicide of

  Allen, Steve

  All Good Americans

  All in the Family (TV special)

  Alpha Caper, The (TV show)

  Alvarez, A.

  Alvin Theatre (New York)

  Ambrose, Stephen E.

  Ameche, Don

  America

  aspirations vs. reality

  ideals of

  mythology of the past

  politics in

  values of, upheld by HF

  Americana, in films and plays

  American Bee Journal

  American Civil War

  American Film Institute

  American Heart Association

  American Indian Movement

  American International Pictures

  American Short Story, The (video intros for series)

  Amsterdam, Fondas in

  Anderson, Al

  Anderson, Robert

  And God Created Woman

  Andrews, Dana

  ANTA Playhouse (New York)

  anticommunism

  Anti-Nazi League (ANL)

  antiwar movement

  Any Wednesday

  Apartment, The

  apocalyptic movies

  Appointment in Samarra (film project)

  Appointment in Samarra (novel, O’Hara)

  Arbuckle, Fatty

  Armendáriz, Pedro

  Aronson, Boris

  Arthur, Bea

  Arthur, Jean

  Ash Wednesday (film)

  Associated Press

  Astaire, Adele

  Astaire, Fred

  Astor, John Jacob

  Atkinson, Brooks

  Austen Riggs sanitarium (Stockbridge, Massachusetts)

  Austria

  Ayers, Bill

  Bacall, Lauren

  Balanchine, George

  Baldwin, James

  Balestrero, Christopher Emanuel “Manny”

  Ball, Lucille

  Ballard, Lucien

  Baltimore, Maryland

  Bancroft, Anne

  Bankhead, Tallulah

  Barbarella

  Bardot, Brigitte

  Barefoot in the Park

  Barker, The (play)

  Barnard College

  Barnes, Clive

  Barrow, Clyde

  Barry, Philip

  Barrymore, Ethel

  Battle of Midway, The

  Battle of the Bulge (film)

  Baum, Larry

  BBC

  Beatles, the

  Beatty, Warren

  Beau Geste

  beekeeping, HF’s

  Behrman, S. N.

  being left alone

  Belafonte, Harry

  Bel Geddes, Barbara

  Bell, George

  Bell Telephone

  Bennett, Dr. Courtney

  Bennett, Joan

  Benny, Jack

  Berkeley, California

  Berlin

  Bernstein, Walter

  Berryman, John

  Best Man, The (film)

  Best Man, The (play)

  Beyond the Horizon (play)

  Bickford, Charles

  Big Bear Lake, California

  Biggest Battle, The (film)

  Big Hand for the Little Lady, A (film)

  Big Picture, The (propaganda film series)

  Big Street, The (film)

  Big Sur, California

  Billings, George

  Biltmore Theatre (Hollywood)

  Binyon, Claude

  Birth of a Nation, The

  race violence fostered by

  blacklist

  Black Panthers

  Black Power

  blacks

  identification with HF

  oppression of

  See also lynching

  Blackstone Theatre (Chicago)

  Blair, Janet

  Blanchard, Susan (3rd wife)

  background

  Blockade (film)

  Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole

  Blow Ye Winds (play)

  Boddy, Manchester

  Boetticher, Budd

  Bogart, Humphrey

  Bogdanovich, Peter

  Bolton, Whitney

  Bond, Ward

  Bonnie and Clyde

  Boorman, John

  Booth, John Wilkes

  Boothe, Clare

  Booth Theatre (New York)

  Boston Strangler, The (film)

  Bower, Sophie

  Boyer, Charles

  Brady, Alice

  Brady, Mathew

  Brahm, John

  Branch, Melville C.

  Brandeis, Louis

  Brandler, Mark

  Brando, Dorothy “Do”

  Brando, Marlon

  Breakfast at Tiffany’s

  Brean, Herbert

  Brenman-Gibson, Dr. Margaret

  Brennan, Walter

  Brewer, Susan

  Bristow, David

  Broadway

  Brocj, Henry

  Brokaw, Frances de Villers “Pan”

  Brokaw, Frances Seymour. See Seymour, Frances

  Brokaw, George Tuttle

  Bronson, Charles

  Brooklyn, N.Y.

  Brooklyn Eagle

  Brooks, Foster

  Brooks, Richard

  Brown, Edmund G.

  Brown, James

  Brown, John Mason

  Brown, Will

  Bryan, William Jennings

  Budapest

  Burdick, Eugene

  Burlington & Missouri River Railroad

  Burton, Richard

  Byrds

  Cagney, James

  Caine Mutiny, The (film)

  Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The (play)

  California

  HF’s political campaigns in

  new life in, as “death”

  Southern

  California Trail

  Callow, Simon

  Calvinism

  Cambridge, Godfrey

  Cambridge, Massachusetts

  Camelot

  Campbell, Alan

  cancer, taboo of

  Cannes Film Festival

  Cape Cod

  Capek, Karel

  Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Mass.)

  Capote, Truman

  Captain Blood

  Captains and the Kings (TV miniseries)

  Cardinale, Claudia

  Carné, Marcel, Le Jour se Lève

  Caron, Leslie

  Carradine, John

  Carroll, Harrison

  Carson, Jack

  “
Casa Gangrene”

  Case, Allen

  Cat Ballou

  Catch-22 (novel, Heller)

  Cather, Willa

  Catholics

  Caughnawaga (later named Fonda), N.Y.

  CBS

  Cecilwood Theatre (Fishkill, New York)

  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)

  Ceplair, Larry

  Cerf, Bennett

  Chad Hanna (film)

  Chambers, Whittaker

  Chansky, Dorothy

  Chapin, Eulalia

  Chaplin, Charlie

  Chapman Report, The

  Chardack, William M.

  Charleston, S.C.

  Chase, The

  Chávez, César

  Chesler, Phyllis

  Cheyenne Social Club, The (film)

  Chicago, Illinois

  Chicano Moratorium Committee

  Chinatown

  Chodorov, Edward, Oh, Men! Oh, Women!

  Chotiner, Murray

  Christian Science

  Churchill, Winston

  Cinecittà film studios

  circus movies

  Citizens’ Committee on Displaced Persons

  City on Fire (film)

  Civil Rights Act

  Civil War. See American Civil War

  Clansman, The (novel)

  Clarence Darrow (dramatic monologue)

  Clarence Darrow (televised version)

  Clark, John Gee

  Clark, Walter Van Tilburg

  Clément, René

  Cleopatra

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Clown (film)

  Clown (TV show)

  Clurman, Harold

  Coca, Imogene

  Cocteau, Jean

  Coe, Fred

  Cohn, Harry

  Colbert, Claudette

  Cold War

  Cole, Lew

  Coleman (reviewer)

  Collision Course (TV show)

  Colonial Theatre (Boston)

  Columbia Pictures

  commercial endorsements

  Committee for the First Amendment

  Communist Party

  Com-TAC 303 (project)

  Connelly, Marc

  Conroy, Frank

  Constant Nymph, The

  Cooper, Gary

  cop movies

  Corey, Jeff

  Corman, Roger

  Corriere della Sera (Milan)

  Costello, John

  Cotter, L. Edward

  Council Bluffs, Iowa

  counterculture, resistance to

  Country Girl, The

  Coward, Noel

  Craig House sanitarium (Beacon, New York)

  Crane, Stephen

  Crawford, Joan

  Creelman, Eileen

  Crisis, The (black journal)

  Critic’s Choice (play)

  Crosby, David

  Crosby, John

  Crosley, F. S.

  Crowther, Bosley

  Cukor, George

  Cummings, Robert

  Curtis, Tony

  Curtiz, Michael

  Custen, George F.

  Dahlman, James

  Daisy Kenyon (film)

  Dallas, Texas

  Damico, James

  Danbaum, Ben

  Dante

  Darien, Connecticut

  Darnell, Linda

  Darrow, Clarence

  Darwell, Jane

  “Dave Tolliver” character

  Davies, Marion

  Davies, Valentine

  Davis, Bette

  Davis, Sammy, Jr.

  Days of Rage

  Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

  death

  family, domesticity, and

  See also suicide

  Debs, Eugene V.

  Decision at Arrowsmith, The (TV show)

  de Havilland, Olivia

  De Laurentiis, Dino

  de Mille, Agnes

  DeMille, Cecil B.

  Democratic National Convention (1960, Los Angeles)

  Democratic National Convention (1968, Chicago)

  Democratic Study Group

  Democrats

  Denham Studios

  Dennison, Tom

  Denver, Colorado

  depression, psychological

  Depression, the Great. See Great Depression

  Deputy, The (TV series)

  Dern, Bruce

  Detroit, Michigan

  Devil in the Cheese, The

  DeVries, Blanche

  Diamond, Jack “Legs”

  Dies, Martin

  Dieterle, William

  Dietrich, Noah

  Directed by John Ford

  Dirty Game, The (film)

  Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

  disarmament

  disaster movies

  Dixon, George

  Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

  Dmytryk, Edward

  Doctorow, E. L.

  Doctors Hospital (New York)

  Donegan, H. W. B.

  Donovan, William J.

  Doors

  Dougherty, Richard, The Commissioner

  Douglas, Kirk

  Douglas, Melvyn

  Douglas, William O.

  Douglas County Courthouse (Omaha, Nebraska)

  “Doug Roberts” character

  Downey, Sheridan H.

  Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln, The

  Dreyfuss, Richard

  Dr. Strangelove

  Drums Along the Mohawk (film)

  Drury, Allen

  Dunaway, Faye

  Dunnock, Mildred

  Dutch Reformed Church

  Duvivier, Julien

  Dylan, Bob

  Dymtryk, Edward

  Early American Families

  Earp, Wyatt

  Earthquake

  East Los Angeles, California

  East Orange, New Jersey

  East St. Louis, Illinois

  Eastwood, Clint

  Easy Rider

  Eberstein, Marshal

  Eddy, Mary Baker

  Ed Sullivan Show, The

  Egyptian, The

  Eight Steps to Peace (shorts)

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Eisenhower Theatre (Washington, D.C.)

  Eisenstein, Sergei

  Ekberg, Anita

  Ellisville, Mississippi

  El Paso, Texas

  Elser, Frank B.

  Emma Willard School, Troy, N.Y.

  Enemy, The (play)

  Englund, Steven

  Enola Gay bomber

  Esquire magazine

  Ethel Barrymore Theatre (New York)

  euthanasia

  Everett, Chad

  Executive Suite

  Exhibitionist, The (anonymous book)

  Exodus

  Fail-Safe (film)

  Falmouth, Massachusetts

  Family Affair

  family comedies

  Famous Players—Lasky

  farmers

  Farmer Takes a Wife, The (film)

  Farmer Takes a Wife, The (play)

  Far West

  fascism

  Fathers Against Sons Against Fathers

  Faye, Alice

  Fedderson, Don

  Fedora (film)

  Feeney, John Martin (John Ford)

  Feeney, Mark, Nixon at the Movies

  Ferber, Edna

  Ferguson, Otis

  Ferrer, José

  Ferrer, Mel

  Ferzetti, Gabrielle

  Fidler, Jimmie

  Fiedler, Leslie

  Fifth Horseman, The (radio series)

  Fighting Mad

  film, transition from silent pictures to talkies

  film noir

  Firecreek (film)

  First Monday in October (play)

  Fishman, Amy Fonda. See Fonda, Amy Fishman

  Fistful of Dollars, A

  Fitzgerald, Zelda

  Five Easy Pieces

  Flaherty, Lanny
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  Fleming, Victor

  Flynn, Errol

  Foley, Gregory

  Fonda, Afdera. See Franchetti, Afdera

  Fonda, Amy Fishman (adopted daughter)

  Fonda, Bridget (granddaughter)

  Fonda, Douw Jellis (in Revolutionary War)

  Fonda, Douw Jellis (son of Jellis Douw Fonda)

  Fonda, Frances. See Seymour, Frances

  Fonda, Harriet McNeill (sister)

  Fonda, Henry

  (1904) birth

  (1927) first visit to the East

  (1928) leaves Omaha for Cape Cod

  (1929) Broadway debut

  (1931–1932) difficult times in New York

  (1931) marries Margaret Sullavan

  (1932) divorced from Margaret Sullavan

  (1934) called to Hollywood

  (1935) possible attempted suicide of

  (1936) marries Frances Seymour

  (1939) contract with Zanuck

  (1942) volunteers for military service

  (1942–1945) war experiences

  (1943) paternity suit brought against

  (1947) return to Broadway

  (1950) death of Frances

  (1950) marries Susan Blanchard

  (1951) on tour with Mr. Roberts

  (1953) adopts Amy

  (1955) meets Afdera Franchetti

  (1955) Susan divorces

  (1957) marries Afdera Franchetti

  (1958–1962) four Broadway plays

  (1960s) mediocre movies made during

  (1961) Afdera divorces

  (1965) marries Shirlee Mae Adams

  (1968) theatrical producing by

  (1971) new play about Lincoln

  (1973) new play about Clarence Darrow

  (1981) last film

  (1981) last stage play

  (1982) death of

  acting style on-stage

  Americanness of

  as angry man

  as antihero

  artist pursuit as painter

  assessment of, by his father (“he was perfect”)

  assessments of, by friends

  autobiography. See Fonda: My Life

  awards

  business apprenticeship in Omaha

  childrearing style

  college education

  commercial endorsements by

  construction and landscaping pursuit of

  criticized by his children

  criticized by sixties radicals

  dancing manner in performances, inhibited

  early acting roles

  early experiences of loss

  early films

  emotional distance of

  extramarital affairs of

  face of

  farming and gardening pursuit of

  fatalistic roles played by

  feeling restricted by family and domesticity

  first Broadway success

  first spoken words on film

  florist job

  health problems in final years

  healthy living of

  hidden vs. public self of

  hiding on stage

  hobbies

  Hollywood commitment

  Hollywood life when starting out

  hospitalizations

  intelligence work during World War II

  interview with Grobel

 

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