Bonita Granville

Bonita Granville ( born February 2, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, † October 11, 1988 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American film actress and producer of films and television films.

Life

Bonita Granville was the daughter of well-known theater actors and was already at the age of three years on the stage. She made her debut at age nine at the side of Ann Harding in the romantic comedy Westward Passage. Granville increased in the next few years a popular child actress who specialized in rather unsympathetic characters. In 1936 she received a nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for her interpretation of a psychotic liar in infamous lies, the film version of Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour. The false accusations of Granville a unseemly Dreieick relationship - the fiancé of a teacher is having an affair with their best friend and colleague, who - at the end of almost prevent the happiness between Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea as well as the lives of Miriam Hopkins. In the original piece was actually the rumor about a lesbian relationship at the center. The following year, Bonita Granville was once again seen as a malevolent schemer who with false accusations can burn innocent women as witches in Maid of Salem.

In the late 1940s Granville drew largely as a film actress returned to marry a wealthy oil magnate. She moved to television and began a three -decade career as a producer of television series, including 140 episodes around the famous dog Lassie and the feature film Our Lassie. Granville directed several episodes directed and produced four feature-length films about the collie.

Today is dedicated to her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Filmography (selection)

Awards