Home Town of Jane Fonda’s Mother

Famous CanadiansHistorySelfie Spot

Frances Ford Seymour was a socialite, the second wife of actor Henry Fonda, and the mother of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda. She was born in Brockville in 1908.

By Photoplay Publishing Company; Hyman Fink, photographer – Photoplay, June 1938 (page 50), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93941261

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