The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (74 page)

With Shirlee at a charity function, c. 1966. “Fonda is definitely a loner,” she said. “I love people and I love parties…. I force him to go.”
(Photofest)

In his East 74th Street town house, mid-1960s.
(Photofest)

“Now that you’ve called me by name …” Sergio Leone (in white hat at right) directing
Once Upon a Time in the West,
spring 1968.
(Photofest)

The virility of an aging conqueror: as Frank in
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1969).
(Photofest)

Henry and kids after a performance of
Our Town,
December 1969.
(Photofest)

Prime-time blues: on TV in
The Smith Family
(1971). “It was hell,” Fonda said.
(Jerry Ohlinger’s)

Fonda gave this 1969 pencil drawing,
Third Floor Rear,
to an Albuquerque family whose daughter was a production assistant on
My Name Is Nobody. (Photofest)

Clarence Darrow
(1974). His last great performance.
(Jerry Ohlinger’s)

Leaving Lenox Hill Hospital after his pacemaker operation, May 7, 1974.
(Photofest)

Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, and Lauren Bacall were among those who rushed to Washington, D.C., for the late 1977 opening of
First Monday in October,
costarring Jane Alexander (back row, far left).
(Photofest)

“The loons! The loons!” With Jane and Katharine Hepburn in
On Golden Pond
(1981).
(Photofest)

The Best Actor, March 30, 1982. “I don’t want it because I don’t believe in it,” Fonda had once said of the Oscars. Hearing his name, he burst into tears.
(ITV/Rex USA)

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