Henry Jaynes Fonda
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Jane says of this general period, but which I will place exactly here, "For a while he shared a two-room apartment on the West side with Josh Logan, Jimmy Stewart and radio actor Myron McCormick." (''My Life'', p 36) So what I think is that he *may* have been roommates with Stewart starting in the Fall or Winter of 1932, not the just-ended Summer. Fall was when all the summer stock actors moved back into New York City looking for the big score and living on rice and water. The University Players, now called the "Theatre Unit" however were prehaps doing a tad better, moving Carry Nation to Broadway for 30 performances. | Jane says of this general period, but which I will place exactly here, "For a while he shared a two-room apartment on the West side with Josh Logan, Jimmy Stewart and radio actor Myron McCormick." (''My Life'', p 36) So what I think is that he *may* have been roommates with Stewart starting in the Fall or Winter of 1932, not the just-ended Summer. Fall was when all the summer stock actors moved back into New York City looking for the big score and living on rice and water. The University Players, now called the "Theatre Unit" however were prehaps doing a tad better, moving Carry Nation to Broadway for 30 performances. | ||
| − | Henry Fonda next played Winter stock in East Orange, New Jersey ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?asin=0313265712&pageID=S00N&checkSum=vg5jWBA/lHeslFozQmNTPcSX9IzEXv%20YoWKPvAKepqw= Sweeney, page 9]). He then had a role in the Broadway play ''Forsaking All Others'' which opened 1 Mar 1933. Some sources report that Fonda was also this year in ''All Good Americans'', but the cast list [http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=11804 here at the Internet Broadway Database] does not show that. Desperate for work he took a job as a florist's assistant ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?asin=0313265712&pageID=S00N&checkSum=vg5jWBA/lHeslFozQmNTPcSX9IzEXv%20YoWKPvAKepqw= Sweeney, p9). "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/sitbv3/reader?asin=0313265712&pageID=S00N&checkSum=vg5jWBA/lHeslFozQmNTPcSX9IzEXv%20YoWKPvAKepqw= Sweeney, p9) Finally, a 5 Dec 1933 article in the ''New York Times'' mentions that he is rehearsing in the play ''Love Story'', but it's not clear that he actually appeared. | + | Henry Fonda next played Winter stock in East Orange, New Jersey ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?asin=0313265712&pageID=S00N&checkSum=vg5jWBA/lHeslFozQmNTPcSX9IzEXv%20YoWKPvAKepqw= Sweeney, page 9]). He then had a role in the Broadway play ''Forsaking All Others'' which opened 1 Mar 1933. Some sources report that Fonda was also this year in ''All Good Americans'', but the cast list [http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=11804 here at the Internet Broadway Database] does not show that. Desperate for work he took a job as a florist's assistant ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?asin=0313265712&pageID=S00N&checkSum=vg5jWBA/lHeslFozQmNTPcSX9IzEXv%20YoWKPvAKepqw= Sweeney, p9]). "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/sitbv3/reader?asin=0313265712&pageID=S00N&checkSum=vg5jWBA/lHeslFozQmNTPcSX9IzEXv%20YoWKPvAKepqw= Sweeney, p9]) Finally, a 5 Dec 1933 article in the ''New York Times'' mentions that he is rehearsing in the play ''Love Story'', but it's not clear that he actually appeared. |
===1934=== | ===1934=== | ||
