HENRY FONDA - INSCRIBED CARD SIGNED - HFSID 25236

HENRY FONDA
Fonda inscribes business card to radio executive
Card inscribed and signed: "To George-/With all good wishes/Henry Fonda", 3½x2, affixed to 6¾x9¼ sheet. Signed on the business card of George R. Sanders, General Manager of Radio Station KWJJ in Portland, Oregon. Original photograph of Fonda and Sanders, b/w, 3¼x3½, was originally affixed at lower right but is now separated from sheet. Caption at lower right margin. 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. Mounting sheet is lightly creased. Glue stains at lower blank margin where photograph was affixed. Irregular left edge from removal from bound book. Fine condition.