The French Fonda
August, 1966
The French FondaNot until she was 20 did the lovely, leggy (5'8") daughter of Henry Fonda finally decide to follow in her talented father's footsteps. Why the delay? "When people asked me why I wasn't an actress," she recalls, "I would tell them if I couldn't be the best, I wouldn't be an actress." Following a brief stint at New York's Actors Studio, she made her debut on the boards in There Was a Little Girl and walked off with a Drama Critics Award, even though the pla...