HENRY FONDA - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 19655

HENRY FONDA
Henry Fonda signs index card
Signature: "Henry Fonda" on verso of 5x3 ruled index card. Magazine photograph, b/w, 2¾x3¼, irregularly cut, affixed at lower right. Typed name at birth date at upper left margin, brief typed biography at lower left. Printed biography affixed at upper left on verso, which bears ink notes (unknown hand): "Nov. 8, 1952/Alvin Thea. 'Point of No Return'". At the time he signed this autograph, Fonda was starring at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway as Charles Gray in the original play, Point of No Return, which ran from December 13, 1951-November 22, 1952. In 1952, he also appeared on an episode of TV's Toast of the Town. One 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 yellowed. Minor show through from article on verso at upper right blank margin. Overall, fine condition.