Bonnie Bonnell
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Marion Wright ("Bonnie" or "Bonny") Bonnell (August 1, 1905 - March 14, 1964) was an actress who played "straight woman" in seven early short comedies, most of which featured the Three Stooges when they worked with Ted Healy between 1933 and 1934. According to Stooges biographers, she was also Healy's offscreen girlfriend during that time. In one film, Plane Nuts, she played a "fourth stooge", working as a partner to Moe, Larry, and Curly as they tormented Healy during his stage act. She was a stage and vaudeville actress for several years before her film career.
[edit] Filmography
- Nertsery Rhymes (1933) as "The Fairy Godmother" (billed as "Bonny")
- Beer and Pretzels (1933) as "Bonny"
- Hello Pop! (1933) as "Bonnie"
- Plane Nuts (1933) as "Bonnie"
- Myrt and Marge (1933) as "gate crasher"
- Hollywood on Parade (1934) as "woman in bar"
- The Big Idea (1934) as "cleaning lady"
[edit] Sources
- Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
- The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2](Citadel Press, 1994).
- The Stooge Chronicles; by Jeffrey Forrester [3] (Contemporary Books Inc,1981)
- Find-a-grave
- The Third Banana: "The Mystery of Bonnie Bonnell"
