Within 9 days it would have been John Wayne`s (Benjamin Vandervoort) 101th birthday.
* May 26, 1907
† June 11, 1979
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Within 11 days it will be Heinz Reincke`s 83th birthday. (May 28, 1925)
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Within 15 days it would have been Wolfgang Büttner`s (Hans Speidel) 96th birthday.
* June 1, 1912
† November 18, 1990
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Within 25 days it will be Richard Todd`s 89th birthday. (June 11, 1919)
(John Howard)
Release date: September 25, 1962
The movie was filmed in:
Cyprus, France and the studio.
23,000 troops were supplied by the U.S., England and France for the filming of this movie.
Darryl F. Zanuck: “Only the actual invasion was possibly more complicated than this recreation”
Journalist Cornelius Ryan began working on the book The longest day in the mid-1950s, while the memories of the D-day participants were still fresh. He spent three years interviewing D-day survivors in the United States and Europe.
The book is divided into three parts: The Waiting, The Night and The Day. Source / More (Book)
The encyclopedia says about the longest day:
About June 22, the sun is directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer. In the Northern Hemisphere the longest day and shortest night of the year occur on this date, marking the beginning of summer. Source / More (Web)
The Allied invasion of the European continent (D-day) through Normandy began on June 6, 1944. The plan, known as Operation Overlord, had been prepared since 1943. General Dwight D. Eisenhower had supreme command over its execution. Source / More (Web)
Henry has a star on Hollywood Boulevard (Vine street).
It’s located one block south of Hollywood Boulevard.
May 16, 1905
August 12, 1982
Raised in Omaha, Fonda initially wanted to be a newspaperman but instead started dabbling in amateur theatrics. By 1934 he had reached Broadway and after scoring his first big hit as Romeo in The farmer takes a wife (1935) he was invited to repeat in Hollywood the role in a movie version.
Soon Fonda was admired over the world for the sincerity and integrity of his work in films like Jezebel (1938), Young mr. Lincoln and The grapes of wrath (1940). Fonda's film career went up the hill.
In 1957 alone, he played the voice of reason in the jury drama 12 Angry Men, an unjustly accused robbery suspect in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man and a frontier bounty hunter in The Tin Star. In 1969 Henry wanted to play a real dark villain, so he accepted a role in Once upon in the west.
His last picture On Golden Pond (1981), (produced by his daughter Jane) won him his only Oscar.
1982 Won Oscar Leading Role for: On Golden Pond (1981)
1981 Honorary Award
1958 Nominated Best Picture for: 12 Angry Men (1957)
1941 Nominated Leading Role for: The Grapes of Wrath, (1940)
Tony Thomas -> The Films of Henry Fonda (1990)
Kevin Sweeney -> Henry Fonda: A Bio-Bibliography (1992)
