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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 McCreaJoel Albert McCrea ( November 5, 1905 October 20, 1990) was a US film actor. Born in South Pasadena, California, McCrea became interested in films after graduating from the University of Southern California. He worked as an extra in films from 1927 before) 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 ActressThe Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners.

Despite this success, the next few years brought her few opportunities to build her career although she continued to work. In 1938Events January -June January 3 The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 11 Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 20 Wedding of king Farouk I of Egypt and Farida Zulficar in Cai she played the girl-detective Nancy DrewNancy Drew is the heroine of a popular mystery series for girls. The series was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The series was ghostwritten in the early years primarily by Mildred Wirt Benson. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams 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, VoyagerNow, Voyager is a 1942 film which tells the story of a middle-aged spinster who, depressed by the domination of her mother, winds up in a sanitarium, where she blossoms. After a brief love affair, she winds up "mothering" her lover's equally depressed dau (1942) as well as two Andy HardyAndy Hardy was a fictional film chararcter played by Mickey Rooney in an extremely successful series of films produced by MGM over a period of 10 years from 1937 to 1947. The most popular of these films paired Rooney with Judy Garland (beginning with Love films with Mickey RooneyJoe Yule, Jr. born September 23, 1920), better known as Mickey Rooney is an American film actor. Rooney was born into a vaudeville family. He moved into film in 1927, making his name with a series of over forty silent two-reel comedies (1927 to 1933) wher. She is also remembered for her starring role in the World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough 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.