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Bonita Granville (February 2, 1923 – October
11, 1988) was an United States|American film
actor|actress, and later in life a successful
television producer.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Granville was the
daughter of stage actors, and made her film debut
at the age of nine in Westward Passage (1933). 
Over the next couple of years she played
uncredited supporting roles in such films as
Little Women (1933) and Anne of Green Gables
(1934) before playing the role of Mary in the film
adapation of Lillian Hellman's The Children's
Hour.  Renamed These Three, it told the story of
three adults (played by Miriam Hopkins, Merle
Oberon, and Joel McCrea) who find their lives
almost destroyed by the malicious lies of an
attention seeking child.  As that child, Granville
was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress. 

Despite this success, the next few years brought
her few opportunities to build her career although
she continued to work.  In 1938 she played the
girl-detective Nancy Drew for the first time.  The
film was a success and Granville reprised her role
in three further films. 

As a young adult, she was once again cast in
supporting roles, often in prestigious films such
as Now, Voyager (1942) as well as two Andy Hardy
films with Mickey Rooney.  She is also remembered
for her starring role in the World War II
anti-Nazism film Hitler's Children (1943). 

Her career gradually began to fade by the mid
1940s, and in 1947 she married Jack Wrather who
had produced some of her films.  He bought the
rights to both The Lone Ranger and Lassie
characters and Granville worked as a producer for
several film and television productions featuring
these characters.  She appeared in the film
version of The Lone Ranger in 1956, and made her
final screen appearance in a cameo role in The
Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981).

The couple remained married until Wrather's death
in 1984.  Granville died of cancer in Santa
Monica, California.

Bonita Granville has a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures,
at 6607 Hollywood Boulevard.