ACTOR

Bonita Granville

1923 - 1988

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Bonita Gloria Granville Wrather (February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988) was an American actress and producer. The daughter of vaudevillians, Granville began her career on the stage at age three. She initially began as a child actress, making her film debut in Westward Passage (1932). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bonita Granville has received more than 801,888 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Bonita Granville is the 6,952nd most popular actor (up from 7,104th in 2019), the 10,264th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,570th in 2019) and the 3,216th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bonita Granville ranks 6,952 out of 13,578. Before her are Ester Expósito, Gertrude Lawrence, Eduardo Verástegui, Edna May Oliver, Valerie Hobson, and Leszek Drogosz. After her are Richie Jen, Tulisa, Jaime Camil, Harry A. Pollard, Linda Lavin, and Martina Stoessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Bonita Granville ranks 440. Before her are Valeriya Gnarovskaya, Basil Hume, Noël Vandernotte, Denise Levertov, Boris Sagal, and Alice von Hildebrand. After her are Dannie Abse, Sam Rivers, Slim Whitman, Bjørn Paulson, Alice Ghostley, and Cathleen Synge Morawetz. Among people deceased in 1988, Bonita Granville ranks 248. Before her are Nora Astorga, Toni Frissell, Oleg Zhakov, Melvin Frank, José Magriñá, and Bent Peder Rasch. After her are John N. Mitchell, Frans Peeraer, Irene Rich, Alexander Bashlachev, Raúl Landini, and Jimmy Ball.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bonita Granville ranks 10,264 out of 20,380. Before her are Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Don Muraco (1949), Richard Florida (1957), Samuel Huntington (1731), Richard Fortus (1966), and Marilyn White (1944). After her are Antonio Tarver (1968), Horace Grant (1965), Amy Pascal (1958), Gintaras Grušas (1961), John N. Mitchell (1913), and Harry A. Pollard (1879).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Bonita Granville ranks 3,216. Before her are Stephen Furst (1954), Donald Petrie (1954), Ruth Roland (1892), Martha Mansfield (1899), Susan Dey (1952), and Edna May Oliver (1883). After her are Harry A. Pollard (1879), Linda Lavin (1937), Vivian Vance (1909), Irma P. Hall (1935), Curtis Armstrong (1953), and Marc Blucas (1972).

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Television and Movie Roles

Now, Voyager
June Vale
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Oct 22o 19427.3 / 10
The Glass Key
Opal 'Snip' Madvig
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Sep 8o 19426.557 / 10
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Nancy Drew
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Feb 18o 19396.2 / 10