Henry Fonda Articles

  Henry Fonda on TCM: THE WRONG MAN, 12 ANGRY MEN, THE LADY EVE Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Fort Apache (1948) An experienced cavalry officer tries to keep his new, by-the-books commander from triggering an Indian war. Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple. Dir: John Ford. BW-128 mins. 5:15 AM Firecreek (1968) A pacifist sheriff must use tougher [...]

  Henry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical "All-American" actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda’s generally one-dimensional characters represented the average American male, then my guess is that you’ve just landed on planet Earth and you’ve never met an American — or any human being, for that matter. Poor Henry Fonda was stuck playing [...]

Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder’s The Fortune Cookie Twelve Walter Matthau movies will be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Wednesday, Aug. 11, as part of TCM’s "Summer Under the Stars" series. I’m no Walter Matthau fan. His on-screen grumpiness has always left me feeling grumpy myself. For that reason, Matthau vehicles have never been a priority of mine. In fact, I’ve only [...]

The Constant Nymph, Edmund Goulding’s hard-to-find 1943 romantic drama starring Charles Boyer and Joan Fontaine, is the highlight of the August 2010 screenings at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper, Virg. [Full Schedule.] Joan Fontaine received her third and last Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as a teenager in love with a musician (Boyer). Rights issues have kept The Constant [...]