Henry Fonda
Born: 16 May 1905
Birthplace: Grand Island, Nebraska
Death: 12 August 1982 (heart failure)
Best Known As: Tom Joad in the movie The Grapes of Wrath
Henry Fonda was one of America's most popular movie stars from the 1940s through the 1970s. Early in his career he was closely associated with director John Ford, starring in Ford movies including Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and My Darling Clementine (1946). After serving in the Navy in World War II Fonda began three decades of work as an American icon, often playing modest, fundamentally decent heroes in movies like Mister Roberts (1955, co-starring Jack Lemmon) and Twelve Angry Men (1957). He capped his career with his first Best Actor Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981, opposite screen legend Katharine Hepburn). Fonda is the father of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda and the grandfather of actress Bridget Fonda.
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Howard Hughes
Born: 24 December 1905
Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Death: 5 April 1976
Best Known As: Famously reclusive billionaire aviator, movie producer and businessman
Hughes is most famous for the last years of his life, when his mind faded and he lived the life of a wealthy, paranoid recluse. But earlier he had been a dashing and innovative businessman. Inheriting the Hughes Tool Company at age 19, Hughes became by turns a Hollywood movie producer, aircraft inventor, mining mogul, casino owner and ladies' man. (He dated Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn among many other starlets.) An avid and daring pilot, Hughes set a handful of aviation world records, including one for a 1938 flight around the world in just over 91 hours. In the 1960s his business dealings paid off handsomely and his wealth reached one billion dollars, a staggering amount for the era. In the 1950s certain personality quirks began to dominate and Hughes grew increasingly unbalanced. He dropped from public view and became famous for his wealth and his mysterious hidden ways, surfacing via telephone in 1972 to say that a biography written by Clifford Irving was a hoax. The gossip and confusion about his whereabouts and lifestyle continued after his 1976 death, when various parties contested his will amid much-publicized legal wrangling.
Leonardo DiCaprio played Hughes in the 2004 biopic The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese... The 1980 movie Melvin and Howard told the story of Melvin Dummar, a small-time gas station owner who claimed he was heir to Hughes's fortune; actor Jason Robards played Hughes... Among movies Hughes produced was Scarface (1932), based loosely on the life of Al Capone and forerunner of the 1983 film Scarface... Hughes's most famous airplane was the Spruce Goose, a giant eight-motored flying boat made of wood. The plane flew only once, in 1947, and is now on display at an aviation museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
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