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Bonita Granville

American actress and producer (1923–1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Bonita Gloria Granville Wrather was an American character actress and producer. The daughter of vaudevillians, Granville began her career on the stage at age three. She began as a child actress, making her film debut in Westward Passage (1932). She rose to prominence for her role in These Three (1936), which earned her an Academy Award nomination at age 14. Her prominence continued with the Nancy Drew film series and roles in Now, Voyager (1942) and Hitler's Children (1943).

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“Bonita Granville” enters the record as american actress and producer (1923–1988). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bonita, Granville and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 1936, 1942, 1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bonita, Granville and American.
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“Bonita Granville” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bonita, Granville and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1932, 1936, 1942 and 1943.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bonita Granville” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.