Word: bonita
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...babies. They are, in fact, the second generation from such World War I monstrosities as The Kaiser-the beast of Berlin. And their infantile crudeness is the essence of their appeal. Hitler's Children (TIME, Jan. 18) features de luxe penny-arcade thrills like the threatened sterilization of Bonita Granville as a creature "unfit to be a Nazi mother." The climax of Behind the Rising Sun is a fight between a Japanese wrestler and a U.S. boxer which epitomizes in terms of the rawest violence the popular notion of the difference between the two nations...
...Beacon Hill mother. Her knight in armor, Paul Henreid, keeps right up with her, however, adding a Continental touch to the picture's portion of love-making. His double-cigarette lighting trick threatens to become as imitated and obnoxious as Veronica Lake's trademark. Claude Rains. Ilka Chase, and Bonita Granville fill in the supporting roles expertly...
...Although Bonita manages to introduce her New Orleans mood music to Chicago, to marry a young man with a horn (Jackie Cooper) and follow him through to the triumph of the modern dance band, story and music never get together. There is too much history to be got over. Furthermore, Miss Granville neither looks nor acts like a hot pianist...
...blues songs "about broken lives and broken dreams"-the Negroes' "trouble music." That meant New Orleans' famed Basin Street and its U.S. equivalent of jungle music. The picture begins in Basin Street in 1907 with the removal to Chicago of Adolphe Menjou, his piano-playing daughter (Bonita Granville) and her blues-singing mammy (Jessie Grayson...
Bearded, barefooted Jonas and his uncounted half-breed offspring are always going to earn a living "when we get twisted around." Their problem is gasoline. It costs money. Without it they can neither fish for bonita nor make Jonas' ancient clapboard truck run. When a sailor son (Jon Hall) comes home with a prize U.S. fighting cock, Jonas wagers the family furniture, the vanilla crop, anything at hand, on the fortune-restoring bird. The result is the blackest day in the history of the Tuttles...