1922 TO 1982 HENRY FONDA & CARY GRANT MOVIE STAR CARDS- HARD TO FIND

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MOVIE STAR
CARDS
1928 TO 1982 HENRY FONDA
1922 TO 1966 CARY GRANT
MOVIE STAR CARDS
This is a group of 2 original cards that were issued in the 1960's.
Henry Jaynes Fonda
(May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor who had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated an
everyman
screen image in several films considered to be classics.
Fonda made his mark early as a
Broadway
actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in films like
Jezebel
(1938),
Jesse James
(1939), and
Young Mr. Lincoln
(1939). His career further progressed with his portrayal of
Tom Joad
in
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940), receiving a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Actor
.
In 1941 he starred opposite
Barbara Stanwyck
in the screwball comedy classic
The Lady Eve
. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded Westerns:
The Ox-Bow Incident
(1943) and
My Darling Clementine
(1946), the latter directed by
John Ford
, and he also starred in Ford's Western
Fort Apache
(1948). After a seven-year break from films, during which Fonda focused on stage productions, he returned with the WWII war-boat ensemble
Mister Roberts
(1955). In 1956, at the age of fifty-one, he played the title role as the thirty-eight-year-old Manny Balestrero in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller
The Wrong Man
. In 1957, he starred as Juror 8, the hold-out juror, in
12 Angry Men
. Fonda, who was also the co-producer of this film, won the
BAFTA
award for Best Foreign Actor.
Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villain in the epic
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968), a box office success in Europe, now regarded as one of the best Westerns of all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as
Yours, Mine and Ours
with
Lucille Ball
and
My Name is Nobody
with
Terence Hill
, but also often played important military figures, such as a colonel in
Battle of the Bulge
(1965), and Admiral Nimitz in
Midway
(1976). He won the
Academy Award for Best Actor
at the
54th Academy Awards
for his final film role in
On Golden Pond
(1981), which also starred
Katharine Hepburn
and his daughter
Jane Fonda
, but was too ill to attend the ceremony. He died from heart disease a few months later.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter
Jane Fonda
, son
Peter Fonda
, granddaughter
Bridget Fonda
, and grandson
Troy Garity
. In 1999 he was named the sixth-
Greatest Male Screen Legends
of the Classic Hollywood Era (stars with a film debut by 1950) by the
American Film Institute
.
Cary Grant
(born
Archibald Alec Leach
; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor. Known for his
mid-atlantic accent
, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of
comic timing
, he was one of
classic Hollywood
's definitive
leading men
from the 1930s until the mid-1960s.
Grant was born and brought up in
Bristol
, England. He became attracted to theater at a young age when he visited the
Bristol Hippodrome
. At the age of 16, he went as a stage performer with the Pender Troupe for a tour of the US. After a series of successful performances in New York City, he decided to stay there. He established a name for himself in
vaudeville
in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s.
Grant initially appeared in crime films or dramas such as
Blonde Venus
(1932) with
Marlene Dietrich
and
She Done Him Wrong
(1933) with
Mae West
, but later gained renown for his performances in romantic
screwball
comedies such as
The Awful Truth
(1937) with
Irene Dunne
,
Bringing Up Baby
(1938) with
Katharine Hepburn
,
His Girl Friday
(1940) with
Rosalind Russell
, and
The Philadelphia Story
(1940) with Hepburn and
James Stewart
. These pictures are frequently cited among the greatest comedy films of all time.
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Other well-known films in which he starred in this period were the adventure
Gunga Din
(1939) and the dark comedy
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944). He also began to move into dramas such as
Only Angels Have Wings
(1939) with
Jean Arthur
,
Penny Serenade
(1941) again with Dunne, and
None but the Lonely Heart
(1944) with
Ethel Barrymore
; he was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actor
for the latter two.
During the 1940s and 50s, Grant developed a close working relationship with director
Alfred Hitchcock
, who cast him in four films:
Suspicion
(1941) opposite
Joan Fontaine
,
Notorious
(1946) opposite
Ingrid Bergman
,
To Catch a Thief
(1955) with
Grace Kelly
, and
North by Northwest
(1959) opposite
James Mason
and
Eva Marie Saint
, with
Notorious
and
North by Northwest
becoming particularly critically acclaimed. The suspense-dramas
Suspicion
and
Notorious
both involved Grant playing darker, more morally ambiguous characters. Toward the end of his career, Grant was praised by critics as a romantic leading man, and he received five nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, including for
Indiscreet
(1958) again with Bergman,
That Touch of Mink
(1962) with
Doris Day
, and
Charade
(1963) with
Audrey Hepburn
. He is remembered by critics for his unusually broad appeal as a handsome, suave actor who did not take himself too seriously, able to play with his own dignity in comedies without sacrificing it entirely.
Grant was married five times, three of them elopements with actresses:
Virginia Cherrill
(1934–1935),
Betsy Drake
(1949–1962), and
Dyan Cannon
(1965–1968). He had a daughter,
Jennifer Grant
, with Cannon. He retired from film acting in 1966 and pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm
Fabergé
and sitting on the board of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
. In 1970, he was presented with an Honorary Oscar by his friend
Frank Sinatra
at the
42nd Academy Awards
, and he was accorded the
Kennedy Center Honors
in 1981. He died of a
stroke
on November 29, 1986, in
Davenport, Iowa
, aged 82. In 1999, the
American Film Institute
named him
the second greatest male star
of Golden Age Hollywood cinema, trailing only
Humphrey Bogart
.
The front of each card shows a real black and white photograph of a famous film stars HENRY FONDA & CARY GRANT, while the back of each card is blank.
The size of each card is approx.4" X 2 1/2" inches. This is a group of 2 ORIGINAL cards.
The cards offered here are the actual original 1960's cards!
Included in this lot is:
HENRY FONDA & CARY GRANT
CONDITION: (see scan)
MOSTLY NEAR MINT
.
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