Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood answered the Harvard Lampoon this week. The Lampoon had selected "All This and Heaven Too" as "the worst ordeal of the year"; the last five minutes of "The Great Dictator" as "the worst scene of the year"; Henry Fonda's work in "The Return of Frank James" as "the worst performance of the year"; and Jane Withers (with Mickey Rooney) as "the most obnoxious child of the year...
...Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences nominated "All This and Heaven Too" and "The Great Dictator" for the best production award for 1940, and Henry Fonda (for his work in "The Grapes of Wrath") for the best performance award. And twentieth Century-Fox signed Miss Withers to a new seven-year contract. -The New York Times
...Post as Red Wheels Rolling it had the attraction of Walter D. Edmonds's popular writing. Producer Nunnally Johnson's screen treatment glosses over the banality of the plot, becomes a simple, artful study of an ordinary, unimportant man. For Chad it has. lanky, loose-jointed Henry Fonda, one of the screen's few leading men able to say "ain't" without wincing. Grey, grumpy Director Henry King, who usually handles Fox's spectacles, resisted the temptation to let his camera linger on the Techni-colored accoutrements of the oldtime circus scene, formed his screenplay...
Good shot: Fonda and Darnell shyly eying each other at the wedding dinner while the tippling guests urge them to kiss...
...Fonda...