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===1933=== Henry Fonda next played Winter stock in East Orange, New Jersey. He then had a role in the Broadway play ''Forsaking All Others'' which opened 1 Mar 1933, but closed quickly even with star Tallulah Bankhead. Desperate for work he took a job as a florist's assistant. "His mood wasn't helped by the news that his ex-wife had just been cast in a Hollywood film ''Just Yesterday'' (1933) ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313265712/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0313265712 Sweeney, page 9]) Sweeney reports that during this year, Fonda worked on the sets of many productions for the Westchester Playhouse in Mount Kisco, where his ex-wife Margaret Sullavan was the "leading lady". At the end of this Summer is when Fonda, returning to New York, rented two rooms at the Madison Square Hotal, with his now best-friend Jimmy Stewart. A 5 Dec 1933 article in the ''New York Times'' mentions that Henry Fonda is rehearsing in the play ''Love Story''. Sweeney states that this play had Jane Wyatt, but closed after only four shows, and before reaching Broadway. Also on 5 Dec 1933, the play ''All Good Americans'' with Hope Williams and Fred Keating, opened on Broadway. Although Fonda's name is not listed in the extensive cast list given both [http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=31&did=105826643&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1219191840&clientId=54310 here in the New York Times] and [http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=11804 here at the Internet Broadway Database], Fonda mentions it in his autobiography. It's just possible, that after ''Love Story'' closed prematurely, that Fonda was then given a part in ''All Good Americans''.
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