Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the U.S. wear Factor "toups" (price: up to $150 apiece), and the company sells 20,000 a year. In Hollywood, nine out of every ten male stars over the age of 35 wear "hair additions" on the screen (on the current list: Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Henry Fonda, Gene Kelly, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart), most of them made by Max Factor. Says Max Jr.: "If they're wearing them, they're Factor...
...play are self-conflicts: Queeg's agonized attempts to keep a grip on his emotions, Greenwald's rigid determination to put a hood over his conscience. As Queeg, Lloyd Nolan plays brilliantly, is as self-revealing when still in control as when losing control. Henry Fonda's sober courtroom Greenwald is in fine contrast both to Queeg and to Greenwald drunk. The whole cast, from John Hodiak's Maryk on, is admirable: out of the stylized nature of the court-martial has been forged just the right style for a theater piece...
Ward lived in a manner befitting his success. At Hilltop Acres, his $200,000 estate commanding a spectacular view of the Rockies, he gave nightlong parties. Once, at 4 a.m., when a guest remarked that La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, N. Mex. served wonderful pancakes, Ward chartered a DC-3 and flew all his guests there for a pancake breakfast...
...study of life among the up & coming, rich with the telling samples of behavior, the satiric touches, social nuances, domestic details that Marquand is master of. For all three acts, Point of No Return is a generally deft production: pleasant staging, neat Jo Mielziner sets, enjoyable acting by Henry Fonda as Charles, by Leora Dana, John Cromwell, Frank Conroy, Robert Ross. Theater-wise, much of the play couldn't be smoother...
Point of No Return demonstrates that a good novel can be made into a good play. John Marquand collaborates with Paul Osborn and the result, with Henry Fonda, is worthwhile. The Colonial...