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One of the cinema's most enduring actors, Henry Fonda enjoyed a highly successful career spanning close to a half century. Most often in association with director John Ford, he starred in many of the finest films of Hollywood's golden era. Born May 16, 1905, in Grand Island, NE, Fonda majored in journalism in college, and worked as an office boy before pursuing an interest in acting.
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Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska on May 16, 1905. His parents were William Brace Fonda and Herberta Jaynes. Fonda majored in journalism at the University of Minnesota but left before graduating. He became an office clerk in Omaha, Nebraska and became active there in the Omaha Community Playhouse, which was directed by Dorothy Brando, Marlon Brando’s mother. He apparently showed promise as an actor because Dorothy Brando encouraged him to get more training in acting. In 1928 he was able to join the Provincetown Players, a semi-professional acting company in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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Henry Jaynes Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, on May 16, 1905, to William Brace Fonda and Herberta Krueger Jaynes. He was the eldest of three children. When Henry was a small child, his family moved to Omaha, where his father opened a printing shop. Henry was a Boy Scout, and liked to write stories; he won a short-story contest when he was 10 years old.
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John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter, Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen), a neighbor now nearly mad with grief, tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the preying land agents who have plowed under the shacks of the sharecroppers. Joined by former hellfire preacher Casy (John Carradine), Tom finds his extended family, including Pa (Charles Grapewin) and his indomitable Ma (Jane Darwell), packing their ramshackle truck to seek work in the fields of California. As the family treks across the country, their dissolution begins with the deaths of Tom's grandparents at close intervals. When they arrive in California, the Joads find only an abundance of poverty-stricken migrants like themselves and little in the way of potential work.
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Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, on May 16, 1905. He was the oldest of three children, born to William Brace Fonda and his wife, Herberta (nee Jaynes). William Fonda worked as a printer. When Fonda was still an infant, the family moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where his father opened a print shop. As a child, Fonda liked to write, winning a short story contest when he was ten years old. Two years later he began working in his father's shop after school.
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Fonda was born May 16, 1905, in Grand Island, NE, and was still an infant when his family moved to nearby Omaha. As a young man, he was encouraged to try acting by a friend of his mother's, Dorothy Brando (at that time the mother of baby Marlon). After giving up his plans to become a journalist, Fonda moved to the East Coast, where he continued his theatrical apprenticeship. He and a friend, Jimmy Stewart, became roommates in Depression-era New York.
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