Henry Fonda

On stage 19 productions, 49 years

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Worked with more than once10 names

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In the literature8 passages

• 6 Bernstein delivered this speech at the second annual Kennedy Center Honors gala on 2 December 1979. Copland, Henry Fonda, Martha Graham, Tennessee Williams, and Ella Fitzgerald were the five artists honored with lifetime achievement awards. The Washington Post (9 December) described Bernstein's tribute to Copland as “a piece of magic.”ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• I thought we were rich. This was Rodgers and Hammerstein. Only they ruined it. We had cast Henry Fonda as Doc, the marine biologist. He had a perfect stage disposition for the role, only he couldn’t sing. “Don’t worry,” we told him. “We’ll get a vocal coach. You don’t have to have the voice of a singer. Look at Rex Harrison in My Fair Lad…ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
• Dick Rodgers said, “I’m not gonna have Henry Fonda singing my music, for Chrissake.”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• At last, on Sunday, November 19, before a star-studded audience that included Natalie Wood, Carol Channing, Julie Andrews, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Lee Remick, and George Burns, The Happy Time had its premiere. 88 “What spins out on the Ahmanson’s stage on that adroit turntable …,” wrote Cecil Smith, “has an almo…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• Cast: Leonard Sillman, Imogene Coca, Nancy Hamilton, Charles Walters, Henry Fonda, Teddy Lynch, James Shelton, Billie Heywoodebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• George was offered to Henry Fonda, whose agent returned the “shocking” script unread without informing his client, who relished theater work and was seeking an image-busting challenge. When he later found out, Fonda was livid. He spoke with Albee about eventually working together. Albee hoped Fonda would be able to play Charlie in Seascap…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt

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