Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda Headshot

Actor

Birth Date: May 16, 1905

Death Date: August 12, 1982

Birth Place: Grand Island, Nebraska

Children: Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda

Grandchildren: Troy Garity

A beloved, enduring screen star who embodied an idealized yet recognizable vision of the average but nonetheless intelligent and honorable American man, Henry Fonda began his acting career in his native Nebraska with the Omaha Community Playhouse. He worked his way to Broadway in 1929 and arrived in Hollywood in 1934. Fonda's benign, paternal presence landed him roles ranging from conscientious US presidents, in "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939) and "Fail-Safe" (1964), to the patient juror who saves an innocent man's life in "Twelve Angry Men" (1957).

He continued both his stage and screen careers through the 1970s, performing in such fine films as the romantic comedy "The Lady Eve" (1941), the John Ford Westerns "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939), "My Darling Clementine" (1946) and "Fort Apache" (1948), the Sergio Leone "spaghetti" Western "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1969, one of his rare villainous roles) and the political drama "Advise and Consent" (1962). Amazingly, for years Fonda's only Oscar nomination was for his moving work as itinerant farm worker Tom Joad in Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940); a year after the Academy granted him an honorary award, though, he won another statuette as best actor Oscar for his swan-song performance in "On Golden Pond" (1981).

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Días de cine clásico

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2018

Les classiques du cinéma

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Juré n8 / Mr Davis
Show
2014

On Golden PondStream

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Norman Thayer Jr.
Movie
1981
91%

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Stewart

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1980

Le Droit à la justice

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Movie
1980

Gideon's Trumpet

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Clarence Earl Gideon
Movie
1980

The Oldest Living Graduate

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Colonel J.C. Kincaid
Movie
1980

MeteorStream

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The President
Movie
1979
5%

Wanda Nevada

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Old Prospector
Movie
1979

City on Fire

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Fire Chief Albert Risley
Movie
1979

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

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1978

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts: Jimmy Stewart

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Show
1978

Battle Force

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Gen. Foster
Movie
1978

Big Yellow Schooner to Byzantium

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Movie
1978

The Great Smokey Roadblock

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Elegant John Howard
Movie
1978

Home to Stay

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Grandpa George
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1978

Fedora

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1978

The SwarmStream

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Dr. Krim
Movie
1978
9%

Rollercoaster

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Simon Davenport
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1977

TentaclesStream

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Mr. Whitehead
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1977
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Midway

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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
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1976

La Derniere Route

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1976

Collision Course

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Movie
1976

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
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1974

The Last Four Days

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Cardinale Schuster
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1974

My Name Is Nobody

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Jack Beauregard
Movie
1973

Night Flight From Moscow

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Allan Davies
Movie
1973

The Red Pony

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Carl Tiflin
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1973

The Alpha Caper

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Mark Forbes
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1973

Ash Wednesday

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Mark Sawyer
Movie
1973

MaudeStream

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1972

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

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1972

The Smith Family

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Det. Sgt. Chad Smith
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1971

The Battle of the Bulge

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1970

The Cheyenne Social ClubStream

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Harley Sullivan
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1970

There Was a Crooked ManStream

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Woodward W. Lopeman
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1970
82%

Sometimes a Great Notion

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Henry Stamper
Movie
1970
100%

Too Late the Hero

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Capt. John G. Nolan
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1970

To Save a Soldier

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1969

The Brass are Coming

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1969

Pat Paulsen For President

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1968

The Doris Day ShowStream

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1968

Travels With Charley

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1968

The Dick Cavett ShowStream

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1968

Yours, Mine and OursStream

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Frank Beardsley
Movie
1968
54%

The Boston StranglerStream

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John S. Bottomly
Movie
1968
88%

Once Upon a Time in the WestStream

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Frank
Movie
1968
96%

FirecreekStream

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Bob Larkin
Movie
1968

Born to Buck

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1968

Madigan

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Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
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1968

The Really Big Family

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1967

Stranger on the Run

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Ben Chamberlain
Movie
1967

Welcome to Hard Times

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Mayor Will Blue
Movie
1967

A Big Hand for the Little LadyStream

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Meredith
Movie
1966

The Dirty Game

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Dimitri Koulov
Movie
1966

The RoundersStream

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Marion `Howdy' Lewis
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1965

Battle of the BulgeStream

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Lt. Col. Dan Kiley
Movie
1965
63%

In Harm's WayStream

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Adm. Chester Nimitz
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1965
37%

Sex and the Single GirlStream

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Frank Luther Broderick
Movie
1964
50%

Fail SafeStream

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The President
Movie
1964
93%

The Best ManStream

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William Russell
Movie
1964
100%

Faites sauter la banque

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1964

Hollywood: The Great Stars

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1963

Spencer's MountainStream

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Clay Spencer
Movie
1963
80%

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

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1962

Henry Fonda and the Family

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1962

Advise & Consent

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Robert Leffingwell
Movie
1962
77%

The Longest DayStream

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Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Movie
1962
87%

How the West Was WonStream

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Jethro Stuart
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1962
87%

Dick Powell Theatre

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1961

The Fabulous Fifties

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1960

The DeputyStream

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Marshall Simon Fry
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1959

WarlockStream

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Clay Blaisedell
Movie
1959
80%

The Man Who Understood Women

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Willie Bauche
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1959

Stage Struck

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Lewis Easton
Movie
1957

12 Angry MenStream

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Juror No. 8
Movie
1957
100%

12 Angry MenStream

Producer
Movie
1957
100%

The Tin StarStream

Actor
Morgan "Morg" Hickman
Movie
1957
88%

War and PeaceStream

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Pierre Bezukhov
Movie
1956
50%

The Wrong ManStream

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Manny Balestrero
Movie
1956
93%

The Star and the Story

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1955

Mister RobertsStream

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Lt. JG Douglas A. "Doug" Roberts
Movie
1955
93%

Medallion Theater

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Dr. Martin Arrowsmith
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1953

What's My Line?Stream

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1950

Fort ApacheStream

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Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
Movie
1948
100%

On Our Merry Way

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Lank
Movie
1948

The FugitiveStream

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A Fugitive
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1947
75%

The Long NightStream

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Joe
Movie
1947

Daisy KenyonStream

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Peter Lapham
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1947
86%

My Darling ClementineStream

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Wyatt Earp
Movie
1946
100%

The Ox-Bow IncidentStream

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Gil Carter
Movie
1943
92%

The Immortal Sergeant

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Cpl. Colin Spence
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1943

The Battle of Midway

Narrator
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1942

The Big Street

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Agustus "Little Pinks" Pinkerton, II
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1942

The Magnificent Dope

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Thadeus Winship "Tad" Page
Movie
1942

The Male Animal

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Tommy Turner
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1942

Rings on Her Fingers

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John Wheeler
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1942

Tales of Manhattan

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George
Movie
1942

The Lady EveStream

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Charles Pike
Movie
1941
99%

You Belong to Me

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Peter Kirk
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1941

Wild Geese Calling

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John Murdock
Movie
1941

The Grapes of WrathStream

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Tom Joad
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1940
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Chad Hanna

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Chad Hanna
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1940

The Return of Frank JamesStream

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Frank James
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1940
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Lillian Russell

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Alexander Moore
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1940

Drums Along the Mohawk

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Gilbert Martin
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1939

Jesse JamesStream

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1939

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

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Thomas Watson
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1939

Let Us Live

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John J. "Brick" Tennant
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1939

Young Mr. LincolnStream

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Abraham Lincoln
Movie
1939
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Blockade

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Marco
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1938

The Mad Miss Manton

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Peter Ames
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1938

I Met My Love Again

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1938

Spawn of the North

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Jim Kimmerlee
Movie
1938

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Preston Dillard
Movie
1938
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Slim

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Slim
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1937

That Certain Woman

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Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Movie
1937

You Only Live OnceStream

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Eddie Taylor
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1937
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Wings of the Morning

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Kerry Gilfallen
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1937

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

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Dave Tolliver
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1936

Spendthrift

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Townsend Middleton
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1936

The Moon's Our Home

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Anthony Amberton/John Smith
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1936

Way Down East

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David Bartlett
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1935

The Farmer Takes a Wife

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Dan Harrow
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1935

I Dream Too Much

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"Johnny" Street
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1935