Bridget Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda (born 27 January 1964) is a US actress.  Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California into a family of actors including her grandfather Henry Fonda, her father Peter Fonda, and her aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother Susan Jane Brewer is an artist.

Trivia:

Cameron Crowe had her in mind when he wrote the movie Singles (1992).

Dated singer/actor Dwight Yoakam [1999-2001]

Lived with Lee Drysdale. [1986-1989]

Was offered the the title role on “Ally McBeal” (1997) but turned it down to focus on movies. In fact, she didn’t even read the script out of fear that she would like it too much.

Lived with Eric Stoltz. [1990-1998]

Cousin of Troy Garity.

Granddaughter of Henry Fonda, niece of Jane Fonda.

Daughter of Peter Fonda.

Sister of Justin Fonda.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#85). [1995]

Cousin of Vanessa Vadim.

Daughter of Susan Brewer.

Is Larry Hagman’s goddaughter.

Flipped and crashed her 1998 Jaguar sports car, along the same infamous Malibu stretch of highway where both Nick Nolte and Robert Downey Jr. got into trouble with the law. She survived, but with minor back injuries. [February 2003]

One week after her unexplained car crash, her publicist announces Fonda’s engagement to composer and former “Oingo-Boingo” member, Danny Elfman.

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Shares a birthday with actress Mimi Rogers, actress Rosamund Pike, Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, actor James Cromwell and actor Alan Cumming.

Is a huge fan of Dario Argento and was supposed to be in Argento’s La sindrome di Stendhal (1996) (aka The Stendhal Syndrome).

Son Oliver Henry Milton Elfman was born mid January 2005.

NBC has ordered a TV pilot based on Candace Bushnell’s book “Lipstick Jungle”. In this book, Bushnell (the writer behind “Sex and the City” (1998)) portrays three successful New York Women, who are not looking for Mr. Big but to become their own Mr. Big. The part of the designer was written with Bridget Fonda in mind.

Named after Bridget Hayward, a step-aunt who committed suicide.

Aunt of Bodhi Elfman and Jenna Elfman.

Step-mother of Mali Elfman.

BFA in Drama – New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1986).

Her godfather is Larry Hagman.

Sister-in-law of Richard Elfman.

Daughter-in-law of Blossom Elfman.

Meteor is a 1979 disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The movie starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. It was directed by Ronald Neame and with a screenplay by Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann, “inspired” by an MIT report Project Icarus. The movie co-starred Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda, Johnny Yune, and Katherine DeHetre.

Tagline: There’s No Place On Earth To Hide!

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• Many elements of the movie’s plot were used in the 1998 films Armageddon and Deep Impact.

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• A 2009 film with the same title and a similar plot, Meteor (TV miniseries), was broadcast by NBC as a 4-hour, 2-part miniseries.

The Boston Strangler is a 1968 film based on the true story of the Boston Strangler. It was directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the strangler, and Henry Fonda as John S. Bottomly, the chief detective now famed for obtaining DeSalvo’s confession.

Trivia:

• 20th Century Fox originally hired Terence Rattigan to write the screenplay based on the book by Gerold Frank, but he wrote it as a comedy and was replaced by Edward Anhalt. In Rattigan’s version, the killer was revealed, by a computer, to be Darryl F. Zanuck.
• Horst Buchholz was among those actors considered for the Tony Curtis part.

• Tony Curtis does not appear until one hour into the film.
• Tony Curtis broke his nose while filming a chase scene.
• Other actors considered for the role of Albert DeSalvo were Robert Redford and Warren Beatty.
• Lionel Newman’s original music consists of one cue (“Peter the Pole”) lasting 22 seconds.
• Shortly before filming was set to begin the real Albert DeSalvo escaped from the mental institution where he was imprisoned. He was later captured after being on the run for 33 hours.
• Edward Winter’s first role.
• Stuart Whitman was considered for the lead role.

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