Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merry Way--Everybody from James Stewart to Victor Moore is in this, which means Paulette Goddard, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, and Dorothy Lamour, among others. Opens today at the Keitb Memorial...
...Apaches as a tribe are yellow curs without any fighting ability," says Colonel Henry Fonda about five minutes after the RKO rooster quits yawping at the audience. The remainder of this courageous-last-stand-in-the-sage-brush saga sets out to disprove the good Colonel's thesis, a problem that involves numerous horsey charges, much sword waving, and about sixteen gallons of ketchup...
...brash young 2nd Lt with a lantern jaw and a gay twinkle in his blue, blue eyes. He provides the love interest and very little else. His opposite, Shirley Temple, is now a Woman, let it be announced. Her acting is competent and mature, if a trifle too cute. Fonda plays the stiff-backed, knuckle-headed Colonel skillfully, but even so experienced an actor as he cannot carry this trite and sloppy picture...
Fort Apache (Argosy; RKO Radio), John Ford's first movie since his apostolically solemn Fugitive, is an unabashed potboiler. An idiotically reckless martinet (nicely played by Henry Fonda) tries to impose spit & polish on a begallused garrison in the Far West. After leading a suicidal charge against the local Indians, he is posthumously adored as a hero-except by the men (John Wayne, et al.) who had to carry out his orders. His daughter, a stock Pert Chit by the name of Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), meanwhile romances with a young officer (played, in appropriate magazine-illustration style...
...Promised Land" is indicative of the type of play the HDC has provided, namely, modern works by English and American authors. Among the plays produced by the Club. are included a musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew," a student written opus called "Close-up," for which Henry Fonda was imported for the lead, and the world premiere of Henry James' "Owen Wingrave...