The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (72 page)

Two manic-depressives writing a comedy: Tom Heggen and Josh Logan, 1947.
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Onstage with Jocelyn Brando and David Wayne in
Mister Roberts
(1948). Note the false tropical sweat.
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Susan Blanchard, late 1940s.
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Henry and Susan on the town, c. 1954. “She was very young herself,” Jane said, “and I often think of the sacrifices she must have made for us.”
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“Death in the guise of marriage and family”: onstage with Leora Dana in
Point of No Return
(1951).
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Fonda (onstage with Lloyd Nolan) declined the role of Norman Maine in the remake of
A Star Is Born
to play Lt. Barney Greenwald in
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
(1953).
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In John Ford’s film of
Mister Roberts
(1955), with William Powell and Jack Lemmon. The director was drunk, the star miserable, the movie a huge hit.
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Fonda, Bogart, and Bacall in
The Petrified Forest
for television, 1955.
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Romance in the ruins: with Afdera Franchetti, Rome, late 1955, soon after they met.
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And five years later: the faces say it all.
(Jerry Ohlinger’s)

“The somnambulistic quality of a bad dream”:
The Wrong Man
(1957).
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On set with Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart. “I bought a story called
Rear Window,
” said Josh Logan in 1955. “We were going to shoot it in one of the apartment districts in New York, with Henry Fonda making it in the daytime while he appeared in
Roberts
at night. But then I got involved in other matters.”
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