Bonita Granville
Bonita Granville (February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988) She made her film debut at the age of nine in Westward Passage (1933), and appeared that same year in a credited but nearly wordless supporting role as the young dancer Fanny Bridges in Cavalcade, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Over the next few years, she played uncredited supporting roles in such films as Little Women (1933) and Anne of Green Gables (1934). She next played the role of Mary Tilford in the 1936 film adaptation of Lillian Hellman's 1934 stage play The Children's Hour, renamed These Three. It was for this role that she was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1938, she starred as the saucy, mischievous daughter in the multiple Academy Award-nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live and as girl detective Nancy Drew in the hit film Nancy Drew... Detective. The Nancy Drew film success led to Granville reprising the role in three sequels from 1938 to 1939, including Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939). A...