Bonita Granville
Nacimiento : 1923-02-02, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1988-10-11
Historia
Daughter of Bernard 'Bunny' Granville and Rosina Timponi, Bonita Granville was born into an acting family on 2 Febuary 1923, in New York, New York. It's not surprising that she herself became a child actor, first on the stage and, at the age of 9, debuting in movies in Westward Passage (1932). She was regularly cast as a naughty little girl, as in These Three (1936) where she played Mary, an obnoxious girl spreading lies about her teachers. Her performance left an impression on the audience, and she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award.
In 1938-39 came the movies she is now best remembered for -- playing the bright and feisty detective/reporter Nancy Drew in the Nancy Drew series. She also appeared with Mickey Rooney in a few Andy Hardy movies. She never really had a movie breakthrough, and after marrying oil millionaire and later producer Jack Wrather, she retired from acting in the middle of the 1950s, although she went on to produce the Lassie (1954) TV series.
After her marriage to oil millionaire Jack Wrather in 1947, she appeared in only three more movies. She became an executive in the Wrather Corp., and first associate producer, then executive producer of the Lassie (1954) TV series. After Wrather's death in 1984, she took over as chairman of the board. She was also involved in many civic and cultural groups, and she was chair of American Film Institute, trustee of John F. Kennedy Center, as well as other well known organizations and charities.
Walt Disney personally convinced the Wrathers to build the Disneyland Hotel when Disney could not raise the money to do so -- his credit was all tied up in building the theme park itself. After the phenomenal success of Disneyland, Disney attempted to buy the hotel; but the Wrathers steadfastly refused to sell. Long after Jack and Bonita Wrather's and Walt Disney's deaths, the Disney Company bought the Wrather Corporation. The Disney Company thus acquired the Disneyland Hotel, the Queen Mary and Spruce Goose attractions in Long Beach, California, the rights to The Lone Ranger (1949) TV series, as well as other properties.
Bonita Granville Rather died of cancer on 11 October 1988, in Santa Monica, California. She and Wrather had four children (two from Wrather's first marriage).
Self
A documentary about child actors in Hollywood, exploring their history from the early days of film.
Woman (uncredited)
John Ried es el único joven ranger de Texas que sobrevive a la emboscada organizada por el líder un militar que actúa al margen de la ley, Butch Cabendich. John es rescatado por un viejo amigo comanche. Después de recuperarse de sus heridas, dedica toda su vida a luchar contra las acciones de Cabendich.
Producer
Un millonario sin escrúpulos reclama a la adorable perrita que vive felizmente en un viñedo de California con un anciano que cuida de sus dos nietos huérfanos. Cuando el poderoso empresario consigue llevarse a Lassie a Colorado, uno de los niños emprende un viaje en busca de la perra. Mientras tanto, Lassie también se ha escapado e intenta volver a casa. Ambos vivirán arriesgadas aventuras y conocerán personajes extraordinarios.
Producer
A two-part episode of the original Lassie television series (that aired in 1971) made into a single TV-movie.
Mrs. Kirkley
Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
Welcome Kilgore
El gobernador cuenta con la ayuda del Llanero Solitario para investigar los misteriosos ataques a los colonos blancos por los nativos americanos.
Stephanie Varna
Basada en las crónicas escritas por los corresponsales extranjeros destinados en Hungría, a finales de los años 40, y por los propios escritos del cardenal József Mindszenty sobre este período tan trágico de su vida.
Julie Ann Brady
When not drinking and fighting, three wildcatters in search of a gusher are enthusiastically drilling for black gold. The trouble begins when one of them grows dissatisfied with their lifestyle and quits so he can be with his new wife. Unfortunately for him, soon after he leaves, the other two find their gusher and become filthy rich. The impoverished quitter is envious and begins looking for an obscure law that will force his pals to share.
Estelle Mitchell / Linda Mitchell
Dos chicos, compartiendo un apartamento, conocen chicas gemelas. Una de ellas es una belleza, y la otra es una experta en malas noticias. La linda es asesinada y su novio es el principal sospechoso.
Kay Wilson
Andy Hardy vuelve a casa después de haber luchado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Su novia no ha querido esperarle y ya está con otro chico por lo que, descorazonado, elige irse a América Latina en busca de otra chica.
Ronnie
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
Christine Allen
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
Dorothy Larson
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940's. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Jeannie Blake
Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio crooner, who actually can't sing at all.
Alice
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
Toddy Jones
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), todos los hombres útiles fueron reclutados por el ejército para ir al frente. Mientras que en las fábricas se hacían turnos de veinticuatro horas, los adolescentes pululaban a sus anchas por las calles trapicheando sin temor a reprimendas. Un soldado herido, que regresa a casa, decide abrir un centro de acogida para enseñar a los chicos a encauzar sus vidas y ofrecerles la oportunidad de conseguir su primer trabajo.
Bonnie
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
Kay Wilson
En esta ocasión, Andy ha de lidiar con dos hermosas gemelas.
Anna Miller
En el Berlín de 1933 hay dos escuelas una al lado de otra. Una es una escuela americana donde enseña el profesor Nichols (Kent Smith). La otra es una escuela de las juventudes hitlerianas, donde Karl Bruner es adiestrado junto a otros muchachos que han sido seleccionados. Anna Muller (Bonita Granville) es una estudiante de la escuela del profesor Nichols, y éste empieza a interesarse por ella...
Anne Porter
Dos prisioneros escapan de la famosa prisión de Alcatraz y se refugian en un faro utilizado por espías nazis. Con su gran honestidad, el farero y su hija se ganan la confianza de los dos fugitivos, quienes sacrificarán su libertad para salvar a la ciudad de San Francisco de un ataque submarino.
June Vale
Charlotte Vale, una mujer de mediana edad que pertenece a una familia acomodada de Boston, vive reprimida y totalmente controlada por su dominante e insensible madre. Gracias a la ayuda de un amable psiquiatra, Charlotte consigue recuperar la autoestima y superar sus miedos. Además, se vuelve mucho más extrovertida y empieza a sentirse incluso atractiva. Dispuesta a disfrutar de su nueva vida, hace un crucero por América del Sur y en el barco conocerá a un apuesto arquitecto infelizmente casado.
Opal 'Snip' Madvig
Durante la campaña para la reelección, el político corrupto Paul Madvig decide limpiar su pasado, rechazando el apoyo del gángster Nick Varna y asociándose con el respetable político reformista Ralph Henry. Cuando el hijo de Ralph, Taylor Henry, un jugador y el amante de la hermana de Pablo Opal, es asesinado, el brazo derecho de Paul, Ed Beaumont, encuentra su cuerpo en la calle. Nick utiliza la situación financiera de The Observer para forzar al editor Clyde Matthews a utilizar el periódico para sembrar la sospecha de que Paul Madvig podría haber matado a Taylor
Kit Latimer
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Mary Pulham
Harry Pulham, miembro de una destacada y aristocrática familia de Boston, pasa sus primeros años en la Universidad de Harvard. Tras el paréntesis de la guerra, Harry acepta un trabajo en una importante agencia de publicidad de Nueva York, donde conoce y se enamora de la bella Marvyn Miles, pero la muerte repentina de su padre le hace volver a Boston. Decide quedarse a vivir, pero Marvyn no puede soportar el ambiente de puritanismo que se respira en esa ciudad.
Betty Haines
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
Frances Marlowe
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
Francine 'Frankie' Diamond
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
Kate Pendleton
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Ursula
1938. Un joven llega a la Alemania de Hitler, busca frenéticamente información acerca de su madre alemana y descubre que está pendiente de ejecución en un campo de concentración.
Vicky Sherwood
Margot (Myrna Loy), la editora de una glamurosa revista femenina, para evitar el continuo asedio de sus colegas masculinos y la cólera de sus celosas esposas, decide ponerse un anillo de oro en el tercer dedo de la mano izquierda, haciendo ver que está casada. Todo se complica cuando el artista Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas), harto de sus continuos fracasos con Margot, decide fingir ante todo el mundo ser su marido, que se creía desaparecido hace mucho tiempo.
Martha Scroggs
Una pareja de edad madura rememora sus días de universidad y noviazgo.
Elsa
Victor Roth es un profesor universitario que vive tranquilamente con su familia en un pequeño pueblo del sur de los Alpes alemanes. Pero, cuando Hitler llega al poder (1933), los Roth, como todas las familias de origen judío, se ven obligados a separarse. Además Roth ve cómo su carrera se arruina y cómo sus hijos varones apoyan el nacionalsocialismo. En cambio, su hija Freya (Sullavan) y su prometido Martin (Stewart) ven con claridad meridiana que la única salida es huir del país.
Doris
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Nancy Drew
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Peggy Finnegan
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers. She and Ted find themselves in many dangerous positions such as trying to fly an airplane after the pilot parachuted out and being face-to-face with the murderer.
Nancy Drew
Mientras participa en un concurso del periódico local en el que se les pide a los escolares que envíen una noticia, la hija del abogado local Carson Drew, Nancy, intercepta una asignación de historia real. Ella "cubre" la investigación de la muerte de una mujer que fue envenenada. Nancy no cree que la joven acusada del crimen sea culpable y acorrala a su vecino Ted para que busque una evidencia vital y tropieza con la identidad del verdadero asesino.
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy becomes a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.
Connie Richards
Cuando la mimada y rica heredera Maggie Richards intenta poner gasolina en un camping dirigido por Bill Davis, éste la obliga a pagar la deuda haciendo las camas. Con ánimo vengativo, ella finge perdonarle y le envía a su padre para que financie un plan de Bill. Lo que ocurre a continuación no formaba parte de su plan original...
Gwen Colbrook
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Sally Ward
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
Roberta Morgan
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
Marian Kilbourne
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
Nancy Drew (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Gracie Kane
Los célebres actores teatrales Basil Underwood y Joyce Arden son socios en escena y fuera de ella. Un gaje del oficio de Basil es que las mujeres a menudo se enamoran de él cuando sale a las tablas... y que él a veces se deja adorar. La vida de Basil y Joyce es apasionada y tempestuosa, caracterizada por disputas y simulaciones constantes, que suelen continuar en escena, mascullando por lo bajo. Tras su última pelea y reconciliación, finalmente han decidido casarse por duodécima y definitiva vez... ¿Pero será la última?
Ann Hilton
La crónica de lo que sucede en un día de primavera en el negocio de una próspera familia inglesa cuando el padre es seducido por una cliente. Esto llevará a una serie de enredos en los que se ven envueltas las hijas del matrimonio.
Isabella
Inglaterra, año 1805. Phoebe Throssel, que vive con a su hermana Susan en Quality Street, ha conocido al apuesto doctor Valentine Brown y espera su visita en casa, creyendo que le propondrá matrimonio. Sin embargo, Brown sólo quiere decirle que se ha alistado en el ejército y tiene que partir hacia el frente. Diez años más tarde, convertido en capitán, regresa inesperadamente y encuentra a Phoebe muy cambiada: con el propósito de rejuvenecer, se hace pasar por un personaje inexistente: Olivia, su propia sobrina. Brown cae rendido ante los encantos de la juvenil Olivia.
Ann
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Mollser Gogan
Una joven esposa irlandesa intenta vivir tranquilamente alejada del caos político. Pero su marido, miembro del IRA planea un golpe contra la oficina de correos de Dublín. Relata la historia de un matrimonio absolutamente implicado en la lucha por la independencia de Irlanda durante la fallida insurrección de Pascua de 1916.
Convent Girl (uncredited)
Domini es una mujer joven y atractiva que empieza una nueva vida en Argelia tras la muerte de su padre. Allí conoce a Boris, con el que se casa sin saber que éste esconde un oscuro secreto; su huida de un monasterio después de ordenar los votos como sacerdote. Este pasado inconfesable atormenta a Boris..
Mary Tilford
Karen y Marta, compañeras de la universidad y ya graduadas, convierten una granja que ha heredado Karen de su abuela en un colegio para chicas. Pero una día las dos profeoras y el doctor Joe Cardin, el médico que las animó a construir la escuela, se ven envueltos en un escándalo cuando una alumna perversa se dedica a difamarlos.
Jen as a Child
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
Mildred Miller
Dos hermanos muestran caracteres enfrentados, estando rodeados en su enfrentamiento por otros parientes.
Joan Shadwell as a Child (uncredited)
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
Amy's Classmate (uncredited)
Cuatro jóvenes hermanas realizan un aprendizaje, a veces doloroso, a veces fascinante, de la vida y del amor. Van creciendo y abandonando, una a una, el hogar familiar para casarse y crear sus propias familias. Sólo se queda Jo, que quiere ser escritora. A pesar de la sensación que tiene de que ya ha terminado su tiempo de felicidad, sigue escribiendo y consigue publicar su primera obra.
Carmen (uncredited)
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Young Fanny
La historia de Gran Bretaña durante el primer tercio del siglo XX es reflejada a través de las desventuras de una familia que sufre toda clase de penurias y calamidades. Un drama épico, basado en la obra del famoso dramaturgo Noël Coward, que resultó la gran vencedora de la edición de los Oscar de 1933.
Liddy (uncredited)
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Little Olivia Allen (age 9)
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
