Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wild Geese Calling" is Hollywood's version of Stewart Edward White's version of the Northland's version of California's Okic, without Steinbeck touches. Henry Fonda plays the part of the itinerant tree-chopper-downer, but his dreaminess is far less appropriate than it was in the character of Tom Joad. Nor is he helped by one of the slowest and feeblest scripts ever devised. The picture, though it contains eye-filling shots of geese flying north and south, quite fails to put across its theme of the strong man in conflict with nature. Much of the fault...
...Lady Eve" has just enough of both slap-stick and character acting to make it a super-streamlised example of the plot-dialogue comedy. Barbara Stanwick can talk as fast as Miss Russell and vary her moods at a pace that approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns...
...Lady Eve (Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, William Demarest; TIME, March...
...Lady Eve (Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, William Demarest; TIME, March...
Anatomically speaking, Henry Fonda is well-situated in the co-featured "Chad Hanna." This circus tale by Harvardman Walter Edmonds '26 is in technicolor, with Linda Darnell's entire back and Dorothy Lamour's legs combining to give Henry a ninety-minute frustration. We feel for you Henry...