Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Henry Fonda on his birthday 🎂
📷 David Lees, 1955
"Our most ingratiating male star... His effortless, modulated style of acting is a minor miracle."
- Brooks Atkinson

My favourite Henry Fonda film: Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve, 1941
What a shot by on set still photographer G.E. Richardson. Look at the martini glasses in the foreground! Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, & the superb Eugene Pallette.

Henry Fonda, Terence Hill & Sergio Leone filming Tonino Valerii's My Name is Nobody, 1973.
The film was based on an idea by Leone, & he replaced Valerii on the set for a day when the director had an ear infection.
The photo is by still photographer Angel Novi
#stillonset

William Auerbach-Levy
Henry Fonda as Charles Christian Wertenbaker & Olivia de Havilland as Lael Tucker Wertenbaker in A Gift of Time, 1962

Henry Fonda & Bette Davis in William Wyler's Jezebel
📷 George Hurrell, 1938

Henry Fonda having a spirited game of #Pingpong with James Stewart in 1937 🏓

Jimmy Stewart plays accordion, & Henry Fonda is on trumpet
📷 John Swope, 1940

Henry Fonda by Gianni Ferrari, Segovia, Spain, 1974

Henry Fonda by Slim Aarons
New York, 1951
Richard Widmark called him "the frontier American - part history, part folklore, part mythology."