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

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by Devin McKinney

Office of Public Information

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

  O’Hara, John

  Appointment in Samarra

  O’Hara, Maureen

  Okies

  Oklahoma

  Oldest Living Graduate, The (TV play)

  Olivier, Laurence

  Olympia

  Olympic Games (1936, Berlin)

  Omaha, Nebraska

  entertainment in

  founding of

  race riot of 1919

  vice and corruption in

  Omaha Community Playhouse

  Omaha Daily Bee

  Once Upon a Time in the West (film)

  One-Armed Peter

  O’Neill, Eugene

  On Golden Pond (film)

  On Our Merry Way (film)

  Operation Petticoat

  Ophüls, Max

  Oregon Trail

  Orion Productions

  Orpheum Theatre (Omaha)

  Osborn, Paul

  Oscars

  O’Sullivan, Maureen

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Otoe Indians

  Our Town (Wilder)

  Outward Bound

  O. W. Street (project)

  Ox-Bow Incident, The (album of readings)

  Ox-Bow Incident, The (film)

  Pacific Campaign

  Pakula, Alan J.

  “Pan”. See Brokaw, Frances de Villers

  Parallax View, The

  Paramount Pictures

  Paris

  Parker, Bonnie

  Parker, Dorothy

  Parkinson, Norman

  Parks, Larry

  Parmet, Herbert S.

  parricide/killing parents

  Parsons, Estelle

  Parsons, Louella

  Pastini, Loren

  Pat Paulsen for President

  Patterns

  Pawnee Indians

  PBS

  Pearl Harbor attack

  Peckinpah, Sam

  Penn, Arthur

  Penthouse magazine

  Percy, Walker

  The Second Coming

  Perelman, S. J.

  Period of Adjustment

  Perkins, Anthony

  Petrified Forest, The (TV drama)

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  Phoenix, Arizona

  Phyllis, Chesler

  Picasso, Pablo

  Piccadilly Theatre (London)

  Pickford, Mary

  Pickwick Papers, The

  Pinkett, H. J.

  Pinnacle Productions

  Pirandello, Luigi

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  Plath, Sylvia

  The Bell Jar

  Platte River

  Playboy magazine

  Plumstead Playhouse (production company)

  Plymouth Theatre (New York)

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Point of No Return (play)

  Polanski, Roman

  political movies

  Pollack, Sydney

  Polonsky, Abraham

  Ponca Nation Indians

  Pons, Lily

  Popular Front

  Poseidon Adventure, The

  Postman Always Rings Twice, The

  Potter, H. C.

  Potters, The (play)

  Powell, Dick

  Powell, William

  Power, Tyrone

  Preminger, Otto

  presidential elections

  of 1952

  of 1956

  of 1960

  of 1964

  of 1968

  President Vanishes, The

  Producers’ Showcase (TV show)

  Progressivism

  propaganda films

  Psycho

  psychotherapy

  PT 109

  Pyle, Ernie

  Quakerism

  Qualen, John

  Quigley, Thomas “Bart”

  Quonset Point, Rhode Island

  race violence

  Race with the Devil

  radicalism

  in Hollywood

  in Hollywood films

  sixties

  radio, HF’s work in

  Rafelson, Bob

  Raft, George

  Rains, Claude

  Random House

  Reagan, Nancy

  Reagan, Ronald

  assassination attempt

  political triumph of

  Really Big Family, The (TV documentary)

  Redford, Robert

  Red Pony, The (TV show)

  Red scare

  “Red Summer”

  Reed, Rex

  “Rehearsal” (radio drama)

  Reid, Wallace

  Renoir, Jean

  Republican National Convention (1952)

  Republicans

  Retail Credit Company of Omaha

  Return of Frank James, The (film)

  Revolutionary War

  Rheingold beer

  Rich, Frank

  Rich, John

  Riefenstahl, Leni

  Ringer, J. Dean

  Rings on Her Fingers (film)

  Rintels, David

  Rin Tin Tin

  Riot in Cell Block 11

  riots

  Ripening (painting by HF)

  Rip Van Winkle (play)

  RKO Pictures

  Robards, Jason

  Robertson, Cliff

  Robinson, Edward G.

  Rogers, Ginger

  Rogers, Will

  Rolland, Romain

  Rollercoaster (film)

  Roman Catholicism

  romantic comedies

  Rome

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin

  documentary about (TV show)

  Roots: The Next Generation (TV show)

  Rose, Billy

  Rose, Reginald

  Rosemary’s Baby

  Rosewater, Edward

  Ross, Lillian

  Ross, Shirley

  Rounders, The (film)

  Rowlands, Gena

  Ruark, Robert

  Russell, Edward

  Rutledge, Ann

  Ryan, Robert

  Rydell, Mark

  Saboteur

  Safire, William

  Saint, Eva Marie

  St. Johns, Adela Rogers

  St. Louis, Missouri

  St. Paul, Minnesota

  San Diego, California

  SANE (Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy)

  San Francisco, California

  Santa Barbara, California

  Santa Fe, New Mexico

  Saroyan, William

  Sarrazin, Michael

  Sarris, Andrew

  Saturday Review of Literature

  Schaffner, Franklin

  Schell, Jonathan, The Village of Ben Suc

  Schenck, Joe

  Schifano, Mario

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.

  Schneider, Bert

  School for Scandal, The (play)

  Schurz, Carl

  Scopes, John T.

  Scott, George C.

  Scott, Martha

  Screen Actors Guild

  Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California

  Seascape (play)

  Seattle, Washington

  Sebring, Jay

  Secrets (play)

  “seeing the elephant”

  Sellers, Peter

  Selznick, David O.

  Selznick, Myron

  Serpent, The (film)

  Seven Days in May

  Seventeen (play)

  “Seventeen Days to Victory” (TV spectacular)

  Sex and the Single Girl (film)

  Seymour, Eugene Ford

  Seymour, Frances (2nd wife)

  affairs of

  background in society

  ghost of

  hospitalizations

  hypochondria of

  separation from HF

  suicide

  will and bequests of

  Sey
mour, Margery

  Seymour, Roger

  Seymour, Sophie. See Bower, Sophie

  Shakespeare

  Shampoo

  Sharon (supposed illegitimate child of HF)

  Sharp Memorial Hospital (San Diego)

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shaw, Irwin

  Sheik, The

  Sherman, William Tecumseh

  Sherwood, Robert E.

  She’s Working Her Way Through College

  Shortridge, James R.

  Showdown at the Adobe Motel (play)

  Showtime USA (TV revue)

  Shubert Theater (New Haven)

  Sidney, Sylvia

  Siegel, Arthur

  Siegel, Don

  “silent majority”

  Silent Night, Lonely Night (play)

  silent pictures

  Sillman, Leonard

  Simon, John

  Simon, Norton

  Sinatra, Frank

  Sioux Indians

  sixties, the

  radicals of

  transforming visionaries of

  “we blew it” statement

  Skinner, Otis

  Slim (film)

  Smith, Edward P.

  Smith, George

  Smith Family, The (TV series)

  Soanes, Wood

  social consciousness

  in films

  in novels

  Socrates

  Somers, Henry, A Subway Ride to the Pacific

  Sometimes a Great Notion (film)

  Sondergaard, Gale

  “Sorry, Senator Goldwater … The Country Just Can’t Risk It” (TV special)

  South, the American

  Southern, Terry

  Southern California

  South Pacific

  Southwest Airways

  Soviet Union

  Spacek, Sissy

  Spanish Civil War

  Spartacus

  Spawn of the North (film)

  Special Forces

  Spencer’s Mountain (film)

  Springer, John

  Springfield, Illinois

  spy movies

  Stage Associates

  Stage Struck (film)

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stanislavsky Method

  Stanton, Edwin

  Stanton, Harry Dean

  Stanwyck, Barbara

  Star and the Story, The (TV show)

  Stark, Ray

  Stars Salute Israel at 30, The (TV special)

  Stebel, Sid

  Steiger, Rod

  Steinbeck, John

  The Grapes of Wrath

  opinion of HF

  Sweet Thursday

  Stevenson, Adlai

  Stewart, James

  stock market crash of 1929

  Stone, Irving

  Stone, Oliver

  “stooging”

  Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The (film)

  Stout, Minnie

  Stout, Rex

  Stranger on the Run (TV show)

  Strasberg, Lee

  Strictly Dishonorable

  Students for Stevenson

  Studio One (TV series)

  Sturges, Preston

  Sturma, Michael

  suicide

  Sullavan, Margaret (Peggy) (first wife)

  probable suicide

  Sunday in New York

  Sunset Strip riots

  Surry, Maine

  Swan, The

  Swarm, The (film)

  Sweet, Dr. Charles C.

  Taft, Robert

  Tales of Manhattan (film)

  talkies

  Tall Story

  Tammy and the Doctor

  Taradash, Daniel

  Tate, Sharon

  Taubman, Howard

  Taylor, Elizabeth

  Taylor, William Desmond

  Technicolor

  Teichmann, Howard

  television

  Temple, Shirley

  Tentacles (film)

  Terkel, Studs, “The Good War”

  Thalberg, Irving G.

  That Certain Woman (film)

  That Girl from Memphis

  Theatre Guild

  Theatre Unit

  There Was a Little Girl

  They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 267–68

  Third Reich

  Thomas, Evan

  Thomas, J. Parnell

  Thompson, Barbara

  Thompson, Ernest

  Thoreau, Henry David

  thriller movies

  Thurber, James

  Tibbets, Col. Paul, Jr.

  Tierney, Gene

  Tigertail. See Los Angeles: house on Tigertail Road, Beverly Hills

  Time magazine

  Time of Your Life, The

  Tin Star, The (film)

  Todd, Mary

  Todd, Mike

  Toland, Gregg

  Toland, Lloyd

  Tolstoy, Leo

  “Tom Joad” character

  Tonight on Broadway (TV show)

  Tony for Best Male Performance

  Top Gun production company

  Torlonia, Augusto

  To Save a Soldier (TV documentary)

  Towering Inferno, The

  Tracy, Lee

  Tracy, Spencer

  Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (film)

  training films

  Trevino, Lee

  Trial of A. Lincoln, The

  Trip, The

  Trotti, Lamar

  Truman, Harry

  Truman Doctrine

  Trumbo, Dalton

  Tucson, Arizona

  Tunney, John V.

  Twain, Mark

  12 Angry Men (film)

  Twelve Angry Men (teleplay by Reginald Rose)

  Twentieth Century–Fox

  Two for the Seesaw (play)

  Uggams, Leslie

  Ulee’s Gold

  Union Army

  United Artists

  United Nations

  United States Postal Service

  University of Minnesota

  University of Omaha

  University Players Guild

  Unruh, Jesse

  urbanization

  U. S. Navy

  USO

  USS Curtiss

  USS Satterlee

  Vadim, Roger

  Vadim, Vanessa

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr.

  Van Deusen, Charles

  Vane, Sutton

  Venice

  Vertigo

  Victors, The

  Vidal, Gore

  Vidor, King

  Vietnam War

  Virginian, The

  Virgin Islands

  V-J Day

  voice-overs

  Voutsinas, Andréas

  Wackiest Ship in the Army, The

  Wadleigh, Julian

  Wagon Train

  Walker, June

  Walk on the Wild Side

  Wallace, Henry

  Wallach, Eli

  Walsh, J. T.

  Waltons, The

  Wanda Nevada (film)

  Wanger, Walter

  War and Peace (film)

  Warden, Jack

  Warlock (film)

  war movies

  Warner, Jack

  Warner Bros.

  Warren, Robert Penn

  Warren, Samuel

  war veterans

  Washington, D.C.

  Wasserman, Lew

  Watergate Affair

  Waterloo, Iowa

  Watts, Richard, Jr.

  Way Down East (film)

  Wayne, John

  Weathermen

  Webb, Clifton

  Webb, Watson

  Welcome to Hard Times (film)

  Wellman, William

  Wertenbaker, Charles Christian

  Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker

  Death of a Man

  Westchester Playhouse (Mount Kisco, New York)

  Westerns

  Kael’s view on

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nbsp; spaghetti

  West Falmouth, Massachusetts

  Westmoreland, William

  westward migration

  Wheeler, Harvey

  White, Harry Dexter

  white working class, politics of

  Whitman, Walt

  Whitmore, James

  Widmark, Richard

  Wild Angels, The

  Wild Bunch, The

  Wilde, Oscar

  Wilder, Billy

  Wilder, Thornton

  Wild Geese Calling (film)

  Wild in the Streets

  Williams, Billy Dee

  Williams, Tennessee

  Williams, William Asbury

  Wills, Garry

  Wilshire Theatre (Beverly Hills)

  Wilson, Douglas L.

  Wilson, Earl

  Wilson, Edmund

  Wilson, Jane

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Wiman, Dwight Deere

  Winchell, Walter

  Windom, William

  Windsor Gallery (Los Angeles)

  Windust, Bretaigne

  Wings of the Morning (film)

  Winter Soldier hearings

  women’s liberation

  Wood, Maj. Gen. Leonard

  Wood, Natalie

  World of the Beaver, The (TV documentary)

  World War II

  HF in

  Wouk, Herman

  The Caine Mutiny (novel)

  Wrong Man, The (film)

  Wuest, Lt. Col. Jacob

  Wyatt, Jane

  Wyeth, Andrew

  Wyler, William

  Wyman, Jane

  Yardley, Jonathan

  You and I (play)

  You Belong to Me (film)

  Young, Loretta

  Young, Robert

  Young Mr. Lincoln (film)

  Eisenstein’s praise for

  Youngstein, Max

  You Only Live Once (film)

  Yours, Mine and Ours (film)

  Zabriskie Point

  Zanuck, Darryl F.

  Henry Fonda’s birth home, Grand Island, Nebraska. (Photo by the author)

  As “Peter” in The Poet’s Well, Omaha Community Playhouse, February 1927. Costar Wenonah La Boisseaux went on to be an Omaha correspondent to the Associated Press. (Photofest)

  Margaret Sullavan, c. 1934. “Her voice was exquisite and far away,” said silent film star Louise Brooks, “almost like an echo.” (Photofest)

  Fonda and Sullavan in the University Players production of Holiday, Baltimore, January 1932. Here, the two are just married; weeks later, they are kaput. Left to right: Fonda, Myron McCormick, Sullavan, Joshua Logan, Barbara O’Neil. (Photofest)

  First Broadway lead: with June Walker in The Farmer Takes a Wife, October 1934. (Photofest)

  Leland Hayward, mid-1930s. (Photofest)

  Walter Wanger in 1934. (Photofest)

  “His appearance of sincerity.” Fonda and Janet Gaynor in The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935). (Photofest)

  Henry in the Beverly Hills bungalow he shared with Jimmy Stewart, early 1936. (Jerry Ohlinger’s)

  Fonda and Sullavan rest between rounds in The Moon’s Our Home (1936). “When they fight,” Pauline Kael wrote, “you feel you’re hearing their real battling rhythms.” (Photofest)

  She said she’d never heard of him. Henry and Frances in late 1936, weeks after their marriage. (Photofest)

  One angry man: making You Only Live Once (1937, with Sylvia Sidney), Fonda incurred bruises and lacerations in fight scenes, and “jokingly” fired a prop gun at director Fritz Lang. (Photofest)

 

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