It’s their birthday. Not as much fun as last year when Winger (50) + Korbut (50) = Fonda (100), but here’s the info.
Henry Fonda was born May 16, 1905, in Grand Island, Nebraska. Seems hard to believe but Fonda was only nominated for an acting Oscar twice — for Grapes of Wrath and On Golden Pond. He won for the latter in 1982, a few months before his death. Particular favorite Fonda films (other than those two): 12 Angry Men, Mister Roberts, My Darling Clementine (he played Wyatt Earp), The Ox-Bow Incident (with sidekick Harry Morgan, aka Col. Sherman Potter) and, maybe best of all, as Clarence Earl Gideon in Gideon’s Trumpet (made when Fonda was 75).
Actress Debra Winger and gymnast Olga Korbut both turn 51 today. Winger has been nominated for the best actress Oscar three times — Shadowlands (1993), Terms of Endearment (1983) and An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). Korbut is the Belarusian gymnast who, pixie-like, revolutionized gymnastics. She became it’s first TV superstar while winning three gold medals and one silver at the 1972 Olympic Games. For a few days she was the talk of the planet.
Elsewhere, Studs Terkel is 94, Pierce Brosnan is 53, Janet Jackson is 40, Gabriela Sabatini is 36 and Tori Spelling is 33.
Woody Herman (1913) and Billy Martin (1928) were born on May 16.