Hollywood Remembers Henry Fonda
Born in 1905, Henry Fonda planned a future in journalism, but after two years at university dropped out. Rescued from an office job by family friend, Dorothy Brando, the mother of one-year-old Marlon, he joined her theatre company.
He made his name in The Farmer Takes A Wife (1934) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) and played the lead role in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), one of his finest performances. The author John Steinback wrote afterwards, "A lean, stringy, dark-faced piece of electricity walked out on the screen and he had me. I believed my own story again.”
