Fonda was born to bona fide movie star Henry Fonda and his second wife, Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Seymour, in 1937. Fonda made her connections count, launching a film career that’s ...

I hadn’t realized that Bridget Fonda was named after Bridget Hayward, the daughter of Henry's first wife from a later marriage. She died of an overdose at 21; it seems suicides extend into the ...