Henry Fonda random trivia

Step-daughter, Pan, with Frances Brokaw Fonda, who periodically returned to the legitimate stage throughout his career ("Mister Roberts," "Critic's Choice," "First Monday in October"), missed out on the chance to create the role of George in the original Broadway production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" when his agent rejected the script out of hand, without consulting Fonda. The agent gave as his reason the assertion that, "you don't want to be in a play about four people yelling at each other all the time." Fonda, who was an admirer of playwright Edward Albee's talents, was furious. It didn't help matters when old friends like Jimmy and Gloria Stewart, or even his daughter Jane, told him that they saw the play in New York and couldn't picture anyone but Fonda in the lead. Finally seeing the show himself, Fonda was duly impressed by Arthur Hill's performance in the role, and conceded that he couldn't have played the part any better. During a Barbara Walters interview, Jane Fonda claimed that her father, Henry Fonda was deeply in love with Lucille Ball and that the two were "very close" during the filming of "Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)".