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Henry Fonda: Mister Roberts
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Fonda was born to William Brace Fonda and Herberta Jaynes. From his humble upbringing in a Nebraskan Christian Scientist family, Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. Fonda's career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the 1930's Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a versatile career and a concrete screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men.
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In addition to the above nominations Fonda won his share of other nominations. In 1948 Fonda won the Tony Awards Best Actor Award for “Mister Roberts”. In 1958 he won the Best Actor Award from BAFTA for his performance in “Twelve Angry Men”. The Tony Awards ... awarded Fonda their Lifetime Achievement Award in 1979.Fonda received another achievement award in the following year. The Golden Globes awarded Fonda the Cecil B. DeMille Achievement Award in 1980. And in 1982, Fonda received the Best Actor Award from Golden Globes for his performance in “On Golden Pond”.
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On the set of Mister Roberts, Fonda came to blows with John Ford and vowed never to work for him again. He never did. This eventual parting of ways with Ford is one of cinema's great turning points. Fonda is regarded as the period's greatest actor, and Ford the greatest director; up to that point, both John Wayne and Fonda had both appeared prominently in the leads of Ford's films and been Ford's good friends. After Mister Roberts, Wayne became Ford's only leading man, to the point where audiences have come to identify any film with Ford as the director as having Wayne as the star. Had Fonda allied with Ford, it is doubtful Wayne could have monopolized Ford's time, and perhaps Wayne's legend would have faded instead of his being known as the greatest director's only leading man.
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In 1948, Fonda appeared on Broadway and starred as in Mister Roberts. The show ran for 1,077 performances — he never missed one. He won a Tony Award and took the show on a national tour. During the Mister Rogers run, Fonda's marriage to Frances ended. He asked her for a divorce; she had been mentally unstable for most of their marriage — and committed suicide in October 1950. A few months later, Fonda married his third wife, Susan Blanchard.
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Henry Fonda. Included are excerpts from: Jezebel, Young Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Roberts. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide
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Fonda followed Mr. Roberts with Paramount Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic War and Peace, in which Fonda played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn, and which took two years to shoot. Fonda worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1956, playing a man falsely accused of murder in The Wrong Man, an unusual though not successful effort by Hitchcock based on an actual crime and filmed on location in black and white.
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