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Hank and Jim - The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart (Paperback)
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Hank and Jim - The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart (Paperback)
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"[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography"
(The New York Times) from bestselling author Scott Eyman about the
remarkable friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, two
Hollywood legends who maintained a close relationship that endured
all of life's twists and turns. Henry Fonda and James Stewart were
two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years, but they
became friends when they were unknown. They roomed together as
stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in
Hollywood, they were roommates again. Between them they made such
classic films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry
Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The
Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, and Rear
Window. They got along famously, with a shared interest in
elaborate practical jokes and model airplanes, among other things.
But their friendship also endured despite their differences: Fonda
was a liberal Democrat, Stewart a conservative Republican. Fonda
was a ladies' man who was married five times; Stewart remained
married to the same woman for forty-five years. Both men
volunteered during World War II and were decorated for their
service. When Stewart returned home, still unmarried, he once again
moved in with Fonda, his wife, and his two children, Jane and
Peter, who knew him as Uncle Jimmy. For his "breezy, entertaining"
(Publishers Weekly) Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian
Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three
of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked
with the men-in addition to doing extensive archival research to
get the full details of their time together. This is not just
another Hollywood story, but "a fascinating...richly documented
biography" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of an extraordinary
friendship that lasted through war, marriages, children, careers,
and everything else.
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