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Maintaining a 50 -year friendship is certainly something to boast, but the rule that kept these two Hollywood stars would be difficult to follow for many.Henry Fonda andJimmy Stewart met for the first time when they were promising theater actors in 1932, and they remained friends until the death of Fonda in 1982. (Stewart died 15 years later in 1997.)

The two men were supposed to have fought once, and this blowing argument led them to decide that there was a subject of which they would never discuss again. Read the rest to find out more about these old Hollywood friends and how they made their differences were not between them.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Read this then:Jimmy Stewart refused to work again with this co-star after their classic film.

According to Turner Classic Films,Fonda and Stewart met for the first time In 1932, when they were members of the players' university, a Massachusetts theater company. The two were roommates that summer, and they decided to live together again when they moved to New York and get there. Later, around 1935, they moved to Los Angeles less than a year old, and their two film careers took off.

Stewart would become one of the most famous actors in Hollywood through films, especiallyMr. Smith goes to Washington,,vertigo, andIt's a magnificent life. Fonda would do the same with theGrapes of Wrath,,12 angry men, andOnce upon a Time in the West.

"They were very similar,"Jimmy Stewart and the fight for EuropewriterRobert MatzenToldCloser friends. "They were both silent introverts. Great guys who were not really comfortable in their own skin."

The two actors liked to do relaxing activities together after being on stage, such as working on model plans. "We both worked in shows and every night, we were rushing with us and starting to assemble the plane," said Stewart, according toCloser. "The first thing we knew that it was 6 am!"

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While Fonda and Stewart had their similarities, they had very different beliefs with regard to politics and religion. Stewart was republican and Christian. Fonda was democratic and agnostic.

AccordingCloser, they once had a great argument on politics and decided that they would no longer tackle the subject, which may or may not have become physical, depending on the account you read. "There were certain subjects that we just haven't talked about," said Stewart.

In an interview with Fox News, directorPeter Bogdanovich says thatFonda told him the same thing. "I spoke to Jimmy once founded, how they got along so well, since they were politically polar opposites. And Hank said:" We are not talking about politics. We are not talking about it. ""

Fonda and Stewart’s friendship stories explain that they could count on each other for support and for a soothing presence in the midst of their hectic career. So it may not be surprising that they did not want to talk about politics.

They were also a constant for each other, even if other relationships come and come: while Stewart was married to his wife,Gloria Hatrick McLean, from 1949 to his death in 1994, Fonda married five times.

In biographyHank and Jim: Henry Fonda and James Stewart's fifty -year friendship,,Scott Eyman wrote (Going throughThe Dallas Morning News), "In their friendship, they created a safe place for themselves, far from the fears and frustrations of their careers, their domestic problems, responsibilities of their legendary status."