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Word: fonda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some of the best battle pieces ever seen on film; starring Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept.10...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...still shaking hands, Stevenson finally turned to an aide and asked, "Have we done enough?" They decided they had, and, after tearing Estes away with some difficulty, they entered a canary-yellow Cadillac to ride into Santa Fe for a public appearance on the Plaza and a La Fonda Hotel political conference with Democrats from seven states. Twenty-four hours and 1,107 miles later, the pattern was repeated: at Vancouver, Wash., where the conference with party leaders was delayed for 30 minutes while Estes shook hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thunder & Rainbow | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life, there is more often a quiet acceptance of fate. Mel Ferrer's Prince Andrey has a certain sullen grandeur, but his diction is often unclear, and he is more wooden than reserved, more testy than proud. Henry Fonda's leanness at first seems all wrong for the massive, moonfaced, soul-tortured Pierre. But Fonda builds beautifully into his part, using a physical clumsiness as a counterpoise to his soaring spirit, making his rages seem the more terrible since they flash out from passivity. As he struggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Divorced. Henry Fonda. 51, drawling actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), screen (Mr. Roberts) and TV; by Susan Blanchard, 27, his third wife, sometime actress and stepdaughter of Producer-Lyricist Oscar (Oklahoma!) Hammerstein II; after five years of marriage, one child; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship, with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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