>Re: Bonita Granville:
>Mary Kalfatovic asks,
>"Does anybody know why Granville quit acting when she grew up?"
 
>I don't know all the answers but she was producer of the LASSIE series from
>1955-1967 as well as helping Jack take care of the pups.  She did appear on
>some (dogfood?) commercials a decade or so ago.
 
>I believe there have been some newspaper profiles of her (if you're a true
>Bonita Granville fan!).
>--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN<
 
According to Ephraim Katz's Encyclopedia of Film, Bonita married a Texas
millionaire who owned, among other things, the Muzak corporation, and
controlled the rights to both "Lassie" and "The Lone Ranger."
 
--Charles Matthews