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Jane Fonda

About: Daughter of Henry and sister of Peter, Jane Fonda was born December 21, 1937, in New York. After dropping out of Vassar, she studied art in Paris and modeled in New York, where she enrolled at the Actors Studio.Fonda made her screen debut in Tall Story (1960) and went on to become a major '60s sexpot through her work in such films as then-husband Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968). Critical acclaim followed with an Oscar-nominated performance in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). Two years later, Fonda won the Best Actress Academy Award for her role in Klute, capturing the honor again eight years later for Coming Home (1978). She also received Oscar nominations for her work in Julia and On Golden Pond (the only film she made with her father).After marrying media mogul Ted Turner and appearing in 1990's Stanley & Iris, Fonda left acting. She made a 2005 comeback in Monster-In-Law.

V-Day: Until the Violence Stops

Rated: | Views Released Year: 2003

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About: This documentary follows the grassroots impact of the V-Day movement -- whose goal is to end violence against women -- in five international communities while exposing the pervasive and cultural forms of violence that women experience all over the world. It's an alternately devastating and hopeful film that features Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda, Salma Hayek, Rosie Perez and Isabella Rosellini.
URL: V-Day: Until the Violence Stops

FTA

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1972

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About: Francine Parker's documentary -- which disappeared from theaters after only one week -- chronicles the Pacific leg of the 1971 "Free the Army" tour, the anti-Vietnam War revue featuring a troupe of performers led by Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Consisting of satirical skits, antiwar humor, protest songs and interviews with members of the military, the FTA revue was designed to inspire U.S. soldiers to voice their dissent.
URL: FTA

Comes a Horseman

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1978

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About: When widowed Ella Connors (Jane Fonda) gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her unscrupulous and powerful ex-lover, Jacob Ewing (Jason Robards), she enlists the aid of her antagonistic neighbor, Frank Athearn (James Caan). As Ella and Frank fight stampedes, betrayal and sabotage to rope enough livestock to pay the ranch's debts, they begin feeling a growing affection for each other in this gritty Western directed by Alan J. Pakula.
URL: Comes a Horseman

On Golden Pond

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1981

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About: Henry Fonda -- in his final role -- plays peevish retired professor Norman Thayer, who's making his yearly excursion with his wife (Katharine Hepburn) to their idyllic summerhouse. But a hostile teen left in their care short-circuits the couple's tranquility. After a rocky start, the old man and the boy forge a bond; can Norman do the same with his estranged daughter? Fonda and Hepburn earned top Oscar honors for their peerless performances.
URL: On Golden Pond

Agnes of God

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1985

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About: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly star in Norman Jewison's riveting adaptation of the hit Broadway drama. When the infant of a young nun, Agnes (Tilly), is found strangled, a court-appointed psychiatrist, Martha Livingston (Fonda), must decide whether the devout but troubled girl is fit to stand trial. The probe uncovers mysterious aspects of Agnes's personality, leading to a shattering climax.
URL: Agnes of God

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1969

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About: A Depression-era dance marathon with a large cash prize brings out the worst in its desperate contestants in director Sydney Pollack's powerful drama starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin and Gig Young (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar). The competitors -- including a jaded young woman, a drifter and a pregnant farm girl -- push one another to the brink of exhaustion, and finally into the unthinkable. Susannah York and Red Buttons also star.
URL: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?