Henry Fonda

He then turned producer, making the 1939 Laurel and Hardy comedy The Flying Deuces, the 1942 romantic comedy Tales of Manhattan with Rita Hayworth and Henry Fonda, and the 1947 musical bomb Carnegie Hall.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

It's well known that Henry Fonda was emotionally remote and that her mother committed suicide.

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Racing against the clock, the President (Henry Fonda) contacts the Russian premier through his interpreter, Buck (Larry Hagman), to inform him that a faulty radio transmission has sent the bombers past the "fail-safe" point.

John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011

He then turned producer, making the 1939 Laurel and Hardy comedy The Flying Deuces, the 1942 romantic comedy Tales of Manhattan with Rita Hayworth and Henry Fonda, and the 1947 musical bomb Carnegie Hall.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Cobb and Henry Fonda are particularly memorable as adversaries as well as further subtle directorial touches, like the nearly imperceptible changes in camera angles and focal lengths to build claustrophobia as the proceedings intensify.

John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011

Racing against the clock, the President (Henry Fonda) contacts the Russian premier through his interpreter, Buck (Larry Hagman), to inform him that a faulty radio transmission has sent the bombers past the "fail-safe" point.

John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011

Racing against the clock, the President (Henry Fonda) contacts the Russian premier through his interpreter, Buck (Larry Hagman), to inform him that a faulty radio transmission has sent the bombers past the "fail-safe" point.

John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011

Cobb and Henry Fonda are particularly memorable as adversaries as well as further subtle directorial touches, like the nearly imperceptible changes in camera angles and focal lengths to build claustrophobia as the proceedings intensify.

John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011

Cobb and Henry Fonda are particularly memorable as adversaries as well as further subtle directorial touches, like the nearly imperceptible changes in camera angles and focal lengths to build claustrophobia as the proceedings intensify.

John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011

His debut was a critical – though not box-office – triumph; an adaptation of Reginald Rose's TV play 12 Angry Men, a tense study in group dynamics starring Henry Fonda as the liberal architect who persuades his fellow jurors to acquit a Hispanic teenager accused of murder.

Sidney Lumet, giant of American cinema, dies at 86 2011