Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Television), the first of a series of televiews of Broadway hits. Like many a try out performance, the show needed tightening and pruning. It ran ten minutes overtime, poked around too long backstage. There were too many interviews (with Author Thomas Heggen, Producer Leland Hayward, Henry Fonda and the cast), too little of Mister Roberts. "It's really much better when you see it," commented a woman televiewer. Television and Broadway agreed, hoped that this week's try (at The Heiress) would be better...
Your picture caption on the smash hit, Mister Roberts, reads David Wayne, Henry Fonda, William Harrigan [TIME, March 1]. Rather believe the last one is Robert Keith, the ship's doctor. The ship's captain, William Harrigan, spends little time with his men, certainly had no time to help the rest prepare a homemade alcoholic concoction...
...Miracle Can Happen (United Artists). Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Victor Moore, Harry James, and a distinguished supporting cast. Roving Reporter Meredith asks people what, if anything, a little child has done for their careers; they tell him, in flashbacks. It's all intended to be funny-and some...
Feckless here & there as a show, Mr. Roberts is virtually flawless as a production. Co-Author Logan has directed it brilliantly; everything is timed just right; every character and gesture tells. As Mr. Roberts, Henry Fonda makes his first Broadway performance in eleven years a quietly memorable one. William Harrigan as the captain, David Wayne as a not-too-bright ensign, and above all Robert Keith as a worldly ship's doctor, are in excellent form...
...principal roles are obviously cut out of slick paper. But Joan Crawford knows as well as any movie star how to make such a manhandled heroine into a magic mirror for women moviegoers. Henry Fonda is a shrewd comedian, in spite of having to play that eternal Lost Little Boy who unleashes skittish maternal emotions. Dana Andrews, a most talented actor, has to call someone "honeybunch" umpteen times in this show, yet he never fails to make it a more or less fresh revelation of character. Director Otto Preminger is expert at the glossy details that are useful to this...