Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06ZZWDCB9 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 567 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Both men volunteered during World War II and were decorated for their service. When Stewart returned home, still unmarried, he once again moved in with Fonda, his wife, and his two children, Jane and Peter, who knew him as Uncle Jimmy.For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda’s widow and children as well as three of Stewart’s children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men—in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, The Philadelphia Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, and Rear Window.They got along famously, with a shared interest in elaborate practical jokes and model air
Everson Award for Film History by the National Board of Review. He has been awarded the William K. He teaches film history at the University of Miami and lives in West Palm Beach with his wife, Lynn. Scott Eyman has written fifteen books, three of them New York Times bestsellers, including
It's gratifying when a gifted writer finds a worthy subject, and Scott Eyman has with Hank and Jim. You have to think both men would have loved the book—although Fonda probably wouldn't have admitted it." (Daniel de Visé, author of Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show )"If you've ever wondered how the Greatest Generation got so great, it was due in part to the respect political opposites like Stewart and Fonda had for one another. In fact, you could say it's a love story in the tradition of Howard Hawks, intimate, knowing, and compulsively readable." &nb