Original Henry Fonda Movie Posters

Henry Fonda movie posters document one of Hollywood's great moral presences — authentic original prints from the career of the actor whose combination of physical stillness and ethical weight made him cinema's ideal embodiment of American conscience. Fonda's career spans social realism, westerns, political drama, and a final phase of reassessment that includes one of the most deliberately cast villain roles in American cinema. The John Ford period is the natural starting point. Original lobby card sets and one-sheets for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) — Fonda as Tom Joad, arguably the finest performance of the studio era — and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) are among the most historically significant items in American classic film collecting. My Darling Clementine (1946) produced western campaign materials of the painterly Ford style that stand as significant pieces of American art. 12 Angry Men (1957) — Sidney Lumet's debut, with Fonda as the lone holdout juror — generated campaign materials that had to communicate the claustrophobic intensity of a jury room drama without giving the resolution away. The resulting half-sheets and one-sheets are models of restrained advertising design. Genuine first-release originals in fine flat condition are now scarce and seldom appear. Sergio Leone's casting of Fonda as the villain in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) produced one of the most deliberately disorienting poster images in western cinema: the most trustworthy face in American film presented as pure menace. Original Italian materials for this film are available to purchase and remain among the most sought-after items in the Leone collecting area. Browse alongside our Sergio Leone page. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.