HENRY FONDA - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 06/20/1939 - HFSID 55379

HENRY FONDA
Fonda inscribes an album leaf for a fan in 1939
Autograph note signed: "For Lewis/Best wishes/Henry Fonda/6-20-39", 6¼x5¼ album leaf. In the year he signed this autograph, Fonda appeared in five feature films: Jesse James, Let Us Live!, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Young Mr. Lincoln and Drums Along The MohawkOne of the cinema's most enduring actors, HENRY FONDA (1905-1982) enjoyed a highly successful career spanning close to a half century. His first important Broadway part was in the first edition of New Faces in 1934. That was followed by the title role in The Farmer Takes a Wife, which he repeated in Hollywood the following year. Two years later, Fonda was an established star appearing in such films as Jezebel, Jesse James, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk and The Grapes of Wrath. Fonda enlisted and served three years in the Navy during WWII-serving in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific, he was awarded a Presidential Citation and the Bronze Star. In March 1982, five months before he died at the age of 77, Henry Fonda won his only Academy Award for his performance in On Golden Pond, co-starring Katharine Hepburn and his daughter, Jane Fonda. In 1999, Fonda was named the sixth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Slightly creased and soiled. Irregular right edge from removal from bound book. Otherwise, fine condition.