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At age 20, Fonda started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse when his mother's friend Dodie Brando (mother of Marlon Brando) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky. [15]
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Following graduation from high school in 1923, he got a part-time job in Minneapolis with the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company which allowed him at first to pursue journalistic studies at the University of Minnesota.
- May 16, 1905
- August 12, 1982
3 days ago · In 1928 Fonda moved to the East Coast to pursue his acting career. He soon joined the University Players Guild, a small summer-stock theatre troupe in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where he met, among others, Joshua Logan, Jimmy Stewart, and Margaret Sullavan, who became the first of his five wives.
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Henry Fonda began his acting career in 1925 at Omaha Community Hall, Nebraska at the behest of Dorothy Brando. At that time he did not take it as a career option. Three years later, he made up his mind to be an actor.
After working backstage at the Playhouse, learning everything from scene painting to set construction, Henry started taking acting seriously and decided to make the theatre his career. Aged 21, in 1926, he made a big impact in the lead role of 'Merton of the Movies' at the Playhouse.
Henry Fonda. Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, on 16 May 1905, Henry Fonda studied to be a journalist and spent some time as an office boy before deciding to pursue acting, which he began at the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando (mother of Marlon.)
From the beginning of Fonda's career in 1935 through to his last projects in 1981, Fonda appeared in more than 100 films, television programs and short subjects. Through the course of his career, he appeared in many critically acclaimed films, including 12 Angry Men and The Ox-Bow Incident.
