The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty

by PeterCollier (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.25

  No film dynasty has exercised such a hold on the public imagination as the Fondas. Henry Fonda, as young Abe Lincoln, Wyatt Earp and Mr Roberts, embodied a particularly American integrity and decency. Yet his private life was cluttered with broken relationships, destined to scar the lives of the children who would remake the legend: Jane, whose career has progressed from Barbarella , to notoriety as Hanoi Jane , to extraordinary success as queen of the aerobic workout; and Peter, one of the enduring icons of the 1960s for his role in Easy Rider , whose subsequent career has contained little of distinction. The Fondas is a story of tragedy, melodrama and farce, a special insight into not just one remarkable family, but the American dream.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $4.33

  No film dynasty has exercised such a hold on the public imagination as the Fondas. Henry Fonda, as young Abe Lincoln, Wyatt Earp and Mr Roberts, embodied a particularly American integrity and decency. Yet his private life was cluttered with broken relationships, destined to scar the lives of the children who would remake the legend: Jane, whose career has progressed from Barbarella , to notoriety as Hanoi Jane , to extraordinary success as queen of the aerobic workout; and Peter, one of the enduring icons of the 1960s for his role in Easy Rider , whose subsequent career has contained little of distinction. The Fondas is a story of tragedy, melodrama and farce, a special insight into not just one remarkable family, but the American dream.