REMEMBERING HENRY FONDA

Who died this date in 1982...Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning five decades....Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts, and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics such as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West with Claudia Cardinale and Charles Bronson....read more here, courtesy of our friends at European Film Star Postcards.

Click on the photo from 1939 to see Fonda as 'YOUNG MR. LINCOLN".