The man who saw a ghost
Subtitle: the life and work of Henry Fonda
By: Devin McKinney
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781250008411; 9781250017765
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: "Henry Fonda's performances--in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond--helped define "American" in the twentieth century. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway legend. He fought in World War II and was loved the world over. Yet much of his life was rage and struggle. Why did Fonda marry five times--tempestuously to actress Margaret Sullavan, tragically to heiress Frances Brokaw, mother of Jane and Peter? Was he a man of integrity, worthy of the heroes he played, or the harsh father his children describe, the iceman who went onstage hours after his wife killed herself? Why did suicide shadow his life and art? What memories troubled him so? McKinney's Fonda is dark, complex, fascinating, and a product of glamour and acclaim, early losses and Midwestern demons--a man haunted by what he'd seen, and by who he was. "--
Table of contents: label: Prologue
title: 1; title: Part 1; label: Chapter 1
title: Springfield, 1839
pagenum: 7; label: Chapter 2
title: The Elephant and the Black Dog
pagenum: 20; label: Chapter 3
title: A Time of Living Violently
pagenum: 38; label: Chapter 4
title: The Big Soul
pagenum: 67; label: Chapter 5
title: Ways of Escape
pagenum: 93; label: Chapter 6
title: A Sort of Suicide
pagenum: 127; title: Part 2; label: Chapter 7
title: The Right Man
pagenum: 159; label: Chapter 8
title: The Wrong Man
pagenum: 190; label: Chapter 9
title: New Frontier and Hidden Agenda
pagenum: 216; label: Chapter 10
title: He Not Busy Being Born
pagenum: 250; label: Chapter 11
title: The Old Man Himself
pagenum: 291; label: Chapter 12
title: Omaha, 1919
pagenum: 332; label: Epilogue
title: 343