Although raised as a Christian Scientist, according to his biography, Fonda: My Life, written by Howard Teichmann in collaboration with Fonda, “[Fonda] claims to be an agnostic.
Fonda died at his Los Angeles home on August 12, 1982, from heart disease. Fonda's wife, Shirlee, his daughter Jane, and his son Peter were at his side that day. He suffered from prostate cancer, but this did not directly cause his death and was noted only as a concurrent ailment on his death certificate.
How old was Henry Fonda when he filmed on Golden Pond?
After they arrive at Golden Pond and Ethel brings firewood into the cabin, she says that Norman is in his seventies and she's in her sixties, but both Henry Fonda (76) and Katharine Hepburn (74) were in their seventies when the film was made.
Jane Fonda is the daughter of famed actor Henry Fonda who was also involved in acting in Hollywood. Henry Jaynes Fonda was born on May 16, 1905, and died on August 12, 1982.
When the multi-married actor Henry Fonda died in 1982, he left his estate to his fifth wife, to whom he was married at the time of his death, and one child he had adopted with his third wife.
One of Fonda's last roles was Clarence Earl Gideon in a television movie called Gideon's Trumpet. Fonda made his last movie, On Golden Pond, for which he won an Oscar, in 1981. Fonda died the next year of heart disease. He was 77.
The two were friends before Hepburn's death in 2003, something that amused Fonda because the iconic actress "didn't like me." Fonda made 1981's On Golden Pond with her father, Henry Fonda, and Hepburn. "It was one of the most glorious experiences of my life," the actress shared, per Vulture.
Henry, best known for his roles in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and 1957's 12 Angry Men, was described by PEOPLE in 1975 as "respected for his talent but widely disliked for his abrasive egotism and vanity," leading to sometimes difficult relationships with his children, Jane and her brother Peter Fonda.
On June 29, 2003, Katharine Hepburn—a four-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress and one of the greatest screen legends of Hollywood's golden era—dies of natural causes at the age of 96, at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor. He was the head of a family of actors: son Peter, daughter Jane, granddaughter Bridget and grandson Troy Garity.
Despite the breakups, Fonda has remained open about her past loves, particularly expressing admiration for Ted Turner as her favorite ex-husband and acknowledging Richard Perry as her best lover.
Fonda's oldest child Vanessa Vadim, who was born in 1968, is her only child with her first husband, the late French filmmaker Roger Vadim. Fonda welcomed her second child Troy Garity in 1973 with her then-husband Tom Hayden, a famed anti-war activist who died in 2016.
No formal adoption papers were drawn up, and on Williams's mother's blessing, she lived with Fonda for the rest of her adolescence and into young adulthood.
Frances Ford Seymour Fonda (4 April 1908 – 14 April 1950) was a Canadian-American socialite. She was the second wife of actor Henry Fonda and the mother of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda.
Her father, an alcoholic, drowned at age 51 when he stumbled into a swimming pool at a sanitarium, according to Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman by Patricia Bosworth. Ann Clare Brokaw, her half-sister by her birth father, died in an auto accident at age 19.
Decades later, Fonda would say of his leading lady, «Everyone who is close to me knows I've been in love with Barbara Stanwyck since I met her. She's a delicious woman. We've never had an affair.
“I live for sex scenes with him,” she shared at the time. “He doesn't like sex scenes, [but] he's a great kisser.” Redford also said that his friendship with Fonda has “always been easy” because of the “love” they have for each other.
began a close friendship between Katharine and Lauren, or “Kate” and “Betty,” as they called each other. Over the next 50 years, the two silver-screen legends shared secrets, sorrows and advice. They leaned on each other when tragedy struck and put friendship first when show business pitted them against each other.
Active in the anti-war movement, Jane Fonda traveled to Hanoi in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) in July 1972. Her visit lasted two weeks and included visits to sites that had been bombed by the United States, a meeting with prisoners of war, and a visit to a military instillation.
Fonda had battled heart disease since 1974, when a pacemaker was placed in his chest. But his dedication to his craft kept him on a strenuous schedule until last year, when his worsening health forced him to be hospitalized often and to move about in a wheelchair.
He soon joined the University Players Guild, a small summer-stock theatre troupe in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where he met, among others, Joshua Logan, Jimmy Stewart, and Margaret Sullavan, who became the first of his five wives. Fonda made his Broadway debut in 1929, with a small part in The Game of Love and Death.
Jane Fonda was married three times. Her ex-husbands are Roger Vadim (married from 1968 until 1973), Tom Hayden (married from 1973 until 1990) and Ted Turner (married from 1991 until 2001). Since her third divorce in 2001, Fonda has not walked down the aisle again.
