Jane (1962), or: Was Jane Fonda Born With a Broken Gaydar?

It’s been 29 minutes….

I think Jane was on diet pills (speed) back then. She seemed manic in every role.

It's like Andreas Voutsinas was trying to channel Roman Polanski. But, he clearly wasn't.

Lee Strausberg must have gotten a lot of cock. Did he ever act or just teach people to act?

Andreas and Jane, the Shawn and Camilla of the 1960s

Method nlowjobs.

Walter Kerr, the Morris of the Cat of theatre critics, who LOATHED both Stephen Sondheim and Sam Beckett, makes several appearances in this

Mel Books had to have seen this...

1 preview and 3 performances.

Walter Kerr listed it among the five worst plays of all time.

Hottie Bradford Dillman shirtless at 19:07. Great pits.

Fuck off, r11.

Andreas was exhausting but kind of cute there. He sure beats David Gest as far as broken gaydar matches go.

Andreas was also FAYE's acting coach.

The co-writer of the play Neil Jansen was a nom de plume for producer Jay Julien.

See Jane in her underwear with zero fat.

I'd say she was like Eve Harrington marrying Addison de Witt for parts - if she weren't a nepo-baby.

I'm more than just Henry's daughter. I took subways!

West Village Side Story

Wow she had the same distinctive voice. I’ve never heard her sing before. Eileen Ford once said when Jane was modeling in her agency she was very forthright and opinionated from a young age. Her dad was mean, and her mom died when she was young. I wonder if the documentary was popular when it was made.

I’ve watched only the first few minutes of the documentary but will continue. I already cringed when Voutsinas yelled at Jane that her father wouldn’t like the way she was playing a scene they were rehearsing. Jane made it clear later in life that not having her father’s approval was a major psychological problem for her. Voutsinas may not have known that, but if he did, it seemed particularly cruel to me.

If I recall correctly, Jane would already have been bulimic when this documentary was made, which would explain not only her tiny waist but also how fragile her self-worth was.

In Jane’s voluminous memoir, she gave Voutsinas only about three sentences, which suggests he didn’t have much of a long-term influence on her.

I didn’t know until OP mentioned it that Voutsinas was the actor who played Carmen Ghia in “The Producers.” I had assumed the actor had been heavily “queened up” by Brooks to be a then stereotypical gay, but now I’m not sure Brooks had to do that much.

I saw “The Producers” in 1967 as a closeted, frightened gayling with my family. The character actually traumatized me, because I felt so different from the stereotype that Brooks was presenting for laughs. It may be another reason why seeing Voutsinas in the documentary chastising Fonda made me so uncomfortable.

Young Jane's looks improve with the glamour stage makeup.

She got better looking with some years on her.

I have to laugh at the director screaming at the curtain guy. They could have had more bows!

The other thing I remember about this film was how much she smoked, before she re-branded herself in the 80s as Queen of Fitness.

She really was pretty damaged in JANE, a quivering mess of insecurity and self-abasement.

I have to laugh at how they flip the billboard top billing from Brad to Jane after the tryouts.

R20 Jane has that Vassar coached voice like Elizabeth Montgomery.

In 1962, a lot of people confused Montgomery and Fonda. They were both nepo babies, starting out, and had similar backgrounds (dominant fathers).

Hardly.

Oh just checked Elizabeth was not a Vassar girl. She attended the Westlake School for Girls in Holmby Hills, California then the Spence School in New York City.

What was that ugly-ass sculpture the director/boyfriend gave her?

Jane in her dressing room at 27 minutes: Well, I hear from the New Yorker review that the new Joan Crawford and Bette Davis movie is bad, too. Nobody wins all the time. It's too bad for them. 'What. A. Dump!'

R29 now Harvard-Westlake. The Andover of the West.

[quote] What was that ugly-ass sculpture the director/boyfriend gave her?

Doesn't he give her a snake bangle, or are we talking about different scenes?

He gives it from 12.12.

She loves the snake bangle too but I'd be wary of the snake symbolism.