The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (61 page)

Slim.
1937. Warner Bros. Director: Ray Enright. Producer: Samuel Bischoff. Screenplay: William Wister Haines, from his novel. Cinematographer: Sid Hickox. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Henry Fonda, Stuart Erwin, Margaret Lindsay, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dick Purcell, Joseph Sawyer, Craig Reynolds, John Litel, Jane Wyman.

That Certain Woman.
1937. Warner Bros. Director-producer: Edmund Goulding. Screenplay: Goulding. Cinematographer: Ernest Haller. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Hugh O’Connell, Katharine Alexander, Minor Watson, Sidney Toler.

I Met My Love Again.
1938. United Artists. Directors: Joshua Logan and Arthur Ripley. Producer: Walter Wanger. Screenplay: David Hertz, from novel
Summer Lightning,
by Allene Corliss. Cinematographer: Hal Mohr. Cast: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Louise Platt, Alan Marshal, Dame May Whitty, Alan Baxter, Dorothy Stickney, Tim Holt.

Jezebel.
1938. Warner Brothers. Director: William Wyler. Producers: Wyler, Henry Blanke, and Hal B. Wallis. Screenplay: Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, and John Huston, from play by Owen Davis. Cinematographer: Ernest Haller. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter, Richard Cromwell, Henry O’Neill, Spring Byington, John Litel, Gordon Oliver.

Blockade.
1938. United Artists. Director: William Dieterle. Producer: Walter Wanger. Screenplay: John Howard Lawson and James M. Cain (uncredited). Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Warwick, Reginald Denny, Peter Godfrey, William B. Davidson, Katherine DeMille, Fred Kohler.

Spawn of the North.
1938. Paramount. Director: Henry Hathaway. Producer: Albert Lewin. Screenplay: Jules Furthman and Talbot Jennings (uncredited), from story by Barrett Willoughby. Cinematographer: Charles Lang, Jr. Cast: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Barrymore, Louise Platt, Lynne Overman, Fuzzy Knight, Vladimir Sokoloff.

The Mad Miss Manton.
1938. RKO. Director: Leigh Jason. Producer: P. J. Wolfson. Screenplay: Philip G. Epstein, from story by Wilson Collison. Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraco. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer, Stanley Ridges, Whitney Bourne, Vickie Lester, Ann Evers, Catherine O’Quinn, Hattie McDaniel, Miles Mander, John Qualen, Grady Sutton.

Jesse James.
1939. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Henry King. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson. Cinematographers: George Barnes and W. H. Greene. Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull, Slim Summerville, J. Edward Bromberg, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine, Donald Meek, John Russell, Jane Darwell, Charles Tannen.

Let Us Live.
1939. Columbia. Director: John Brahm. Producer: William Perlberg. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller and Allen Rivkin, from story by Joseph F. Dinneen. Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard. Cast: Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker, George Lynn, George Douglas.

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell.
1939. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Irving Cummings. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Associate Producer: Kenneth Macgowan. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti, from original story by Ray Harris. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Cast: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Spring Byington, Sally Blane.

Young Mr. Lincoln.
1939. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Ford. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck, Associate Producer, Kenneth Macgowan. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti. Cinematographers: Bert Glennon, and Arthur Miller (uncredited). Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Eddie Collins, Pauline Moore, Richard Cromwell, Donald Meek, Judith Dickens, Eddie Quillan, Spencer Charters, Ward Bond.

Drums Along the Mohawk.
1939. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Ford. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti and Sonya Levien, from novel by Walter D. Edmonds. Cinematographers: Bert Glennon and Ray Rennahan. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Dorris Bowdon, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Shields, Robert Lowery, Roger Imhof, Francis Ford, Ward Bond, Kay Linaker, Russell Simpson.

The Grapes of Wrath.
1940. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Ford. Producers: Nunnally Johnson and Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Johnson, from novel by John Steinbeck. Cinematographer: Gregg Toland. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, O. Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury, Frank Sully, Frank Darien, Darryl Hickman, Shirley Mills, Roger Imhof, Grant Mitchell, Charles D. Brown, John Arledge, Ward Bond.

Lillian Russell.
1940. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Irving Cummings. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: William Anthony McGuire. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William, Leo Carrillo, Helen Westley, Ernest Truex, Nigel Bruce, Joe Weber, Lew Fields.

The Return of Frank James.
1940. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Fritz Lang. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Sam Hellman. Cinematographer: George Barnes. Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Donald Meek, Eddie Collins, George Barbier, Russell Hicks.

Chad Hanna.
1940. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Henry King. Producers: Nunnally Johnson and Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay: Johnson, from novel
Red Wheels Rolling,
by Walter D. Edmonds. Cinematographers: Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan. Cast: Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell, Guy Kibbee, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Roscoe Ates, Ben Carter, Frank M. Thomas, Frank Conlan.

The Lady Eve.
1941. Paramount. Director: Preston Sturges. Producer: Paul Jones. Screenplay: Sturges, from story “The Faithful Heart,” by Monckton Hoffe. Cinematographer: Victor Milner. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Martha O’Driscoll, Janet Beecher, Robert Greig.

Wild Geese Calling.
1941. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Brahm. Executive Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Producer: Harry Joe Brown. Screenplay: Horace McCoy, from novel by Stewart Edward White. Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard. Cast: Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Ona Munson, Barton MacLane, Russell Simpson, Iris Adrian, James C. Morton, Paul Sutton, Mary Field, Stanley Andrews.

You Belong to Me.
1941. Columbia Pictures. Director: Wesley Ruggles. Producer: Ruggles. Screenplay: Claude Binyon, from story by Dalton Trumbo. Cinematographer: Joseph Walker. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan, Roger Clark, Ruth Donnelly, Melville Cooper, Ralph Peters, Maude Eburne, Renie Riano, Ellen Lowe, Mary Treen, Gordon Jones, Fritz Feld, Paul Harvey.

Rings on Her Fingers.
1942. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Producer: Milton Sperling. Screenplay: Ken Englund, from story by Robert Pirosh and Joseph Schrank. Cinematographer: George Barnes. Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Shepherd, Spring Byington, Frank Orth, Henry Stephenson, Marjorie Gateson, George Lessey, Iris Adrian, Harry Hayden.

The Male Animal.
1942. Warner Bros. Director: Elliott Nugent. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Screenplay: Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, from play by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent. Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson. Cast: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette, Herbert Anderson, Hattie McDaniel, Ivan F. Simpson, Don DeFore, Jean Ames, Minna Phillips, Regina Wallace.

The Magnificent Dope.
1942. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Walter Lang. Producer: William Perlberg. Screenplay: George Seaton, from original story by Joseph Schrank. Cinematographer: Peverell Marley. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche, Edward Everett Horton, George Barbier, Frank Orth, Roseanne Murray, Marietta Canty, Hobart Cavanaugh, Hal K. Dawson.

Tales of Manhattan.
1942. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: Julien Duvivier. Producers: Boris Morros and S. P. Eagle (Sam Spiegel). Screenplay: Edmund Beloin, Ben Hecht, Ferenc Molnár, Donald Ogden Stewart, Samuel Hoffenstein, Alan Campbell, Ladislas Fodor, László Vadnay, László Görög, Lamar Trotti, Henry Blankfort, and William Morrow. Cinematographer: Joseph Walker. Cast: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Cesar Romero, Gail Patrick, Roland Young, Marion Martin, Elsa Lanchester, Victor Francen, George Sanders, James Gleason, Harry Davenport, J. Carrol Naish.

The Big Street.
1942. RKO. Director: Irving Reis. Producer: Damon Runyon. Screenplay: Leonard Spigelgass, from story “Little Pinks,” by Runyon. Cinematographer: Russell Metty. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette, Agnes Moorehead, Sam Levene, Ray Collins, Marion Martin, William T. Orr, George Cleveland, Vera Gordon, Ozzie Nelson.

Immortal Sergeant.
1943. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John M. Stahl. Producer: Lamar Trotti. Screenplay: Trotti, from novel by John Brophy. Cinematographer: Arthur Miller. Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Melville Cooper.

The Ox-Bow Incident.
1943. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: William A. Wellman. Producer: Lamar Trotti. Screenplay: Trotti, from novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Cinematographer: Arthur Miller. Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Henry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Matt Briggs, Harry Davenport, Frank Conroy, Marc Lawrence, Paul Hurst, Victor Kilian, Chris-Pin Martin, Willard Robertson, Ted North, Francis Ford, Margaret Hamilton.

My Darling Clementine.
1946. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director: John Ford. Producer: Samuel G. Engel. Screenplay: Engel and Winston Miller, from story by Sam Hellman, from book
Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal,
by Stuart N. Lake. Cinematographer: Joe MacDonald. Cast: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Ward Bond, Alan Mowbray, John Ireland, Roy Roberts, Jane Darwell, Grant Withers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Russell Simpson, Francis Ford, Mae Marsh.

The Long Night.
1947. RKO. Director: Anatole Litvak. Producers: Robert and Raymond Hakim, and Litvak. Screenplay: John Wexley, from story by Jacques Viot. Cinematographer: Sol Polito. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman, Moroni Olsen, Elisha Cook, Jr., Queenie Smith, David Clarke, Charles McGraw.

The Fugitive.
1947. Argosy-RKO. Director: John Ford. Producers: Ford and Merian C. Cooper. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, from novel
The Power and the Glory,
by Graham Greene. Cinematographer: Gabriel Figueroa. Cast: Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo, Ward Bond, Robert Armstrong, John Qualen.

Daisy Kenyon.
1947. Twentieth Century–Fox. Director-producer: Otto Preminger. Screenplay: David Hertz, from novel by Elizabeth Janeway. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Cast: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart, Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall, Nicholas Joy, Art Baker.

On Our Merry Way
(aka
A Miracle Can Happen
). 1948. United Artists. Directors: King Vidor and Leslie Fenton. Producers: Benedict Bogeaus and Burgess Meredith. Screenplay: Laurence Stallings, from original story by Arch Oboler, John O’Hara, and Lou Breslow. Cinematographers: Gordon Avil, Joseph Biroc, Edward Cronjager, and John F. Seitz. Cast: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Harry James, Dorothy Lamour, Victor Moore, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Hugh Herbert, Charles D. Brown, Eduardo Ciannelli, Betty Caldwell, Dorothy Ford, Carl Switzer.

Fort Apache
. 1948. Argosy-RKO. Director: John Ford. Producers: Ford and Merian C. Cooper. Screenplay: Frank S. Nugent, from story “Massacre,” by James Warner Bellah. Cinematographer: Archie Stout. Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond, George O’Brien, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Irene Rich, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Jack Pennick, Ray Hyke, Movita, Miguel Inclán, Mary Gordon, Philip Keiffer, Mae Marsh, Hank Worden, John Agar, Francis Ford.

Jigsaw.
1949. United Artists. Director: Fletcher Markle. Producers: Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger. Screenplay: Markle and Vincent McConnor, from story by John Roeburt. Cinematographer: Don Malkames. Cast: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence, Winifred Lenihan, Betty Harper, Hedley Rainnie, Walter Vaughan, George Breen, Robert Gist, Hester Sondergaard. Uncredited cameos: Leonard Lyons, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, John Garfield, Burgess Meredith, Everett Sloane.

Mister Roberts.
1955. Warner Bros. Directors: John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy. Producer: Leland Hayward. Screenplay: Frank S. Nugent and Joshua Logan, from play by Thomas Heggen and Logan, from Heggen’s novel. Cinematographer: Winton Hoch. Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond, Phil Carey, Nick Adams, Perry Lopez, Ken Curtis, Robert Roark, Harry Carey, Jr., Pat Wayne, Frank Aletter, Tiger Andrews, Fritz Ford, Jim Moloney, Buck Kartalian, Denny Niles, Francis Connor, William Hudson, Shug Fisher, Stubby Kruger, Danny Borzage, Harry Tenbrook, Martin Milner, Gregory Walcott.