Lisa Lieberman's Blog - Posts Tagged "henry-fonda"

Bette Davis claimed than an affair between a star and her director produces electricity that the audience feels. She was thinking about “Jezebel,” the film she made with William Wyler... More

Ordinarily I steer clear of films that were intended as allegories. They go down like medicine and, let’s face it, most directors take themselves way too seriously when they embark on a mission. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) is an allegory in the form of a Western, too, a genre freighted with moral purpose. I confess, I was a little nervous going in, but I saddled up anyhow, put on my spurs, and set off for Sweetwater.

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My New Year’s resolution for 2017 is to get back to blogging regularly. So, here we go with John Ford’s hymn to the moral courage and human decency of the martyred American leader who steered our nation in the direction of justice.

Henry Fonda almost didn’t take the role when Ford offered it to him. He held Lincoln in such reverence, he said, that it would have been like “portraying Christ himself on film.”

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