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Divorced. Tommy Manville, 47-year-old asbestos heir; by his fifth wife, Bonita Francine Edwards, 22; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Bonita Francine Edwards Manville, 22, after 17 days packed her things and said good-by to Tommy, who saw her off to Reno on the train, in the presence of faithful photographers and newsmen. Sighed Manville: "I don't know why she's leaving me." Declared the bride: "I think he's wonderful." Terms of the settlement were not disclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Tommy Manville, Manhattan's silver souvenir of the trivial '20s, took another wife-his fifth. The bride was Bonita Francine Edwards, 22, a blonde showgirl whom 47-year-old Manville had met four days before. "Long engagements may be out of style," said the groom to the press, "but we're glad we waited till we were sure." The bride said frankly: "I'm not in love with Tommy-I'm just infatuated. I hope to fall in love with him after a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Words, Words | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...baby in a girls' seminary, Cantor limits his histrionics to planting wet smacks on the patient infant, singing one lachrymose ditty, Little Curly Hair. Once tears trickle down his nose. But smart Showman Cantor lets cute Baby Quintanilla, and scads of leggy little schoolgirls, among whom are Bonita Granville and Diane Lewis (Mrs. William Powell; TIME, Jan. 15), carry the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mothers and He Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher (Claude Rains), she turns out to be a jewel with a heart of gold. Besides lavishly fulfilling her exacting duties, Hannah sells the contents of the family basement at fabulous prices, facilitates a budding romance between young Sally Ward (Bonita Granville) and Peter Trimble (Jackie Cooper), stimulates Paul Ward to invent not one but two different types of automatic icebox, and cures Mrs. Ward of the chronic droops. By all this audiences are prepared to believe in the denouement of the story and the omnipotence of the Golden Rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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