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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories,

and we tell stories about everything here on this show, including yours, send them to Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, including

yours, send them to Our American Stories.com.

They're some of our favorites.

We love to tell stories about movies and the culture.

We also love telling stories about history, and this combines both elements beautifully.

It's time for another one of our Roger McGrath's Hollywood Goes to War stories.

We've done a number of them.

Go to our website and do a search for Jimmy Stewart's and so many more.

McGrath is the author of Gunfighters, Highwayman, and Vigilantes.

Violence on the Frontier, a U.S. Marine and former

history professor at UCLA, Dr. McGrath has appeared on numerous history channel documentaries

and is a regular contributor for us here at Our American Stories.

Here's Roger McGrath with the story of Henry Fonda.

Henry Fonda was one of the greatest actors of Hollywood's Golden Age,

appearing in nearly 50 movies in the legendary years of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

He would add 35 more movies in the 1960s and 70s.

In 1940, he was nominated for Best Actor for his role as Tom Jode in The Grapes of Wrath,

and then 41 years later won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond.

Fun to play in a wide variety of characters in films of many different genres,

including several that are considered classics.

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