Article: Fun with the Fondas. (encore).(actor Henry Fonda and family)(Brief Article)

In July 1948, when Henry Fonda was starring in Mister Roberts on Broadway, House Beautiful devoted no less than 36 pages to his family's home in Los Angeles's then-rural Santa Monica hills. The article followed Hank and Frances Fonda through the process of designing and building their unpretentious New England-style farmhouse on eight acres, which included apple orchards and an orange grove. Pictures of everything from the linen cupboard to the compost heap, and plenty of warm family anecdotes, like this excerpt, brought the story to life.

The Fonda children are extremely fond of animals, and their parents are always on the alert to add to the family menagerie. ...

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