Henry Jaynes Fonda

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Henry Fonda first hooked up with the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts and was given the juvenile lead in their production of ''The Barker'' in 1928, starring Minor Watson, which ran for 7 performances.  "Bernie Hanighan, a friend of Fonda's from Omaha...invited Fonda to drive with him to Falmouth...where the University Players were staging plays." ([http://books.google.com/books?id=cXscbDlSt0cC&pg=PA174&dq=quigley+fonda&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U39AcYrmvws1oFAbB65Dv1tHM7a5g#PPA6,M1])
 
Henry Fonda first hooked up with the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts and was given the juvenile lead in their production of ''The Barker'' in 1928, starring Minor Watson, which ran for 7 performances.  "Bernie Hanighan, a friend of Fonda's from Omaha...invited Fonda to drive with him to Falmouth...where the University Players were staging plays." ([http://books.google.com/books?id=cXscbDlSt0cC&pg=PA174&dq=quigley+fonda&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U39AcYrmvws1oFAbB65Dv1tHM7a5g#PPA6,M1])
  
"When [[Margaret Sullavan]] was invited to join the University Players the following summer in Falmouth, she stole his shy Nebraska heart.  Their romance bloomed until Sullavan went off to star in a Broadway play." (''My Story'', p. 36).  Margaret's Wikipedia biography [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sullavan here] states that both Henry and she were in the 1929 "undergraduate musical" ''Close Up''.  Since this was presumably while school was in session, it must have been in the Spring of that year.  It doesn't seem likely that Henry was performing as a member of the college, so perhaps this play had outside actors as well.  Margaret was then invited to join the University Players.  It is also possible that the Wikipedia entry is confused and that Fonda was not in that play, but only met Margaret, as his daughter Jane states, when she joined the summer stock a few months later.
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Fonda performed in two plays for the University Players that Summer, but after the season ended, he had to compete with numerous other actors in the crowded New York market.  He finally found work in December with the National Junior Theatre in Washington, D.C.  In April 1929, Bernie Hanighan, organized a musical ''Close Up'' at Cambridge.  The Junior season was ending and so Fonda came to Cambridge to do this one scene with Margaret Sullavan (cf [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sullavan "Margaret Sullavan"], Wikipedia).  That's when he fell in love with her.
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"When [[Margaret Sullavan]] was invited to join the University Players the following summer in Falmouth, she stole his shy Nebraska heart.  Their romance bloomed until Sullavan went off to star in a Broadway play." (''My Story'', p. 36).
  
 
In a 31 May 1931 ''New York Times'' article, this part of Margaret Sullavan's life is summed up by this quote:<blockquote>"...[she went] to the Copley Theatre School in Boston.  A year later, when she came home as the feminine lead in a road company of ''Strictly Dishonorable''....[there came] an evening at Princeton where she replace Margaret Perry as the visiting artiste in a collegiate production of ''Three Artists and a Lady''. [Seeing her here] Mr [Elmer] Harris ventured an offer to Miss Sullavan to appear in her first New York show."</blockquote>
 
In a 31 May 1931 ''New York Times'' article, this part of Margaret Sullavan's life is summed up by this quote:<blockquote>"...[she went] to the Copley Theatre School in Boston.  A year later, when she came home as the feminine lead in a road company of ''Strictly Dishonorable''....[there came] an evening at Princeton where she replace Margaret Perry as the visiting artiste in a collegiate production of ''Three Artists and a Lady''. [Seeing her here] Mr [Elmer] Harris ventured an offer to Miss Sullavan to appear in her first New York show."</blockquote>

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