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At the age of 42, Frances committed suicide while residing at a mental institution. However, Henry chose to tell his children their mother died of a heart attack. It wasn’t until a year later...
Frances Ford Seymour Fonda (4 April 1908 – 14 April 1950) was a Canadian-American socialite. She was the second wife of actor Henry Fonda and the mother of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda. Biography. Born in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, Seymour was the daughter of Sophie Mildred (née Bower) and Eugene Ford Seymour. According to her ...
She was a distant relative of King Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, whom daughter Jane Fonda was named after. After being married to Henry Fonda for 13 years, Frances found herself part of a fraught existence. She suffered from debilitating mental illness, and their marriage was on the rocks.
According to daughter Jane Fonda, Frances had a history of mental health issues due to the recurrent episodes of sexual abuse that she had been subjected to as a kid. Frances was initially married to millionaire lawyer and sportsman George Tuttle Brokaw.
Fonda's mother, Frances Ford Seymour, was a Canadian-born socialite when she married actor Henry Fonda. They later had Jane and her brother Peter Fonda. Having been in and out of mental ...
The now-80-year-old icon lost her mother Frances Ford Seymour to suicide when she was just 12-years-old, and the events that lead up to the heartbreaking moment will forever be one of Jane’s...
Genevieve Naylor/Corbis/Getty. Frances Ford Seymour, a Canadian-born socialite, was married to Henry Fonda in 1936 and they had two children: Jane and Peter. In 1950, when Jane was 12 and...
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