HENRY FONDA - INSCRIBED PROGRAM SIGNED CIRCA 1981 - HFSID 226831

HENRY FONDA
Fonda inscribes program to his last stage appearance
Program Inscribed and signed on the title page: "For Anna-/With Warmest Good Wishes-/Henry Fonda."20p, 5½x8½, Playbill, "Showdown at the Adobe Motel," Hartman Theatre Company, Stamford, Connecticut, February 11 through March 1, 1981. Fonda's last stage appearance. 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. "Anna" was Anna Sosenko (1909-2000), legendary Broadway producer and songwriter. Crease along left margin from opening booklet. Pencil note (unknown hand) on back of booklet. Otherwise, fine condition.