Henry Jaynes Fonda
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Henry met his next wife Frances Seymour in London in the latter-half of 1936 where she was vacationing from New York, and while she was visiting the set of ''Wings of the Morning'', in which he was starring. On [http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=214&did=88689550&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1218582714&clientId=54310 24 Aug 1936 the ''New York Times''] is reporting the engagement of "Mrs Frances Seymour Brokaw of 646 Park Avenue... to Henry Fonda noted screen star. Mrs Brokaw is now in Paris. She has been traveling with Miss Fay Devereux Keith, of this city, who is engaged to Mrs. Brokaw's brother Ford de Villers Seymour. Mrs Brokaw and Mr Fonda met for the first time in London this June. They became engaged in Germany...." A glamourous picture of Frances appears on the next day [http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=215&did=87983707&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1218583435&clientId=54310 here]. | Henry met his next wife Frances Seymour in London in the latter-half of 1936 where she was vacationing from New York, and while she was visiting the set of ''Wings of the Morning'', in which he was starring. On [http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=214&did=88689550&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1218582714&clientId=54310 24 Aug 1936 the ''New York Times''] is reporting the engagement of "Mrs Frances Seymour Brokaw of 646 Park Avenue... to Henry Fonda noted screen star. Mrs Brokaw is now in Paris. She has been traveling with Miss Fay Devereux Keith, of this city, who is engaged to Mrs. Brokaw's brother Ford de Villers Seymour. Mrs Brokaw and Mr Fonda met for the first time in London this June. They became engaged in Germany...." A glamourous picture of Frances appears on the next day [http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=215&did=87983707&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1218583435&clientId=54310 here]. | ||
| − | On his return from London in Sep 1936 to New York, he lists his address as "235 N Carmetina, West Los Angeles". Soon after their return to New York, they were married. Frances was a wealthy widow with a young daughter Frances "Pan" Brokaw from her prior marriage to George Brokaw who had died about 1933. | + | On his return from London in Sep 1936 to New York, he lists his address as "235 N Carmetina, West Los Angeles". Soon after their return to New York, they were married. Frances was a wealthy widow with a young daughter Frances "Pan" Brokaw from her prior marriage to George Tuttle Brokaw (see [http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=218&did=88694858&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=7&retrieveGroup=0&VType=PQD&VInst=PROD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1218583638&clientId=54310 here]), a lawyer and sportsman, many years her senior, who had died about 1933. Frances' family on both sides came from some sort of high-society as her engagement announcement makes clear. |
Henry Fonda and Frances Seymour were the parents of actors [[Jane Fonda]] (b. 1937) and [[Peter Fonda]]. Jane was born in New York City while Henry was filming ''Jezebel'' with [[Bette Davis]]. William Wyler, the director of Jezebel, was none other than the next husband of Henry's ex-wife Margaret Sullavan, they had married at the end of 1936. | Henry Fonda and Frances Seymour were the parents of actors [[Jane Fonda]] (b. 1937) and [[Peter Fonda]]. Jane was born in New York City while Henry was filming ''Jezebel'' with [[Bette Davis]]. William Wyler, the director of Jezebel, was none other than the next husband of Henry's ex-wife Margaret Sullavan, they had married at the end of 1936. | ||
