Alexa here. Actress and general badass Jane Fonda turns 75 this week. I've long admired her for all of her incarnations, glories and missteps, and for the fact that she unflinchingly calls herself a feminist, which seems all too rare. Were I to choose my favorite Fonda era I'd have to go with her early 70s Klute period. She won her first Oscar, sported an amazing haircut and worked as a tireless activist (leading to a self-described "greylisting" as Hanoi Jane in the summer of 1972).
So of course I snapped up this April 1971 Life magazine profile of Jane when I spotted it at a thrift store. The profile was few months before the release of Klute, and revolves around her travels on behalf of women's rights, welfare rights, GI rights, and Black Panther rights. There is an unfortunate skepticism and patronizing tone to the profile (written by John Frook), but it...
So of course I snapped up this April 1971 Life magazine profile of Jane when I spotted it at a thrift store. The profile was few months before the release of Klute, and revolves around her travels on behalf of women's rights, welfare rights, GI rights, and Black Panther rights. There is an unfortunate skepticism and patronizing tone to the profile (written by John Frook), but it...
- 12/18/2012
- by Alexa
- FilmExperience
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