HENRY FONDA - CONTRACT SIGNED 03/01/1977 - HFSID 168925

HENRY FONDA
Fonda signs contract with American Film Institute to appear on a program to salute Bette Davis
Document Signed: "Henry Fonda". 2p, separate sheets, 8½x12. Los Angeles, California, 1977 March 1. Standard AFTRA Engagement Contract between Henry Fonda and the American Film Institute for him to appear on the AFI Salutes Bette Davis show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, on March 1, 1977 for the compensation of $1,000. 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 creased. Horizontal folds, none at signature. Staple holes at upper left. Overall, fine condition.