{{Short description|American entertainer (1905–1964)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Bonnie Bonnell | image = Bonnie Bonnell, 1941.jpg | image_size = | caption = Bonnell in 1941 | birth_name = Marion Wright Bonnell | birth_date = {{birth date|1905|08|01|mf=y}} | birth_place = Thomasville, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|03|14|1905|08|01}} | death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | other_names = Bonny | years_active = 1933–1934 | occupation = Film actress<br>singer | spouse = }}
'''Bonnie 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.<ref name="Moe">{{cite book| last = Howard| first = Moe | author-link = Moe Howard|author2=Joan Howard Maurer| title = Moe Howard and the Three Stooges| publisher = Broadway Publishing| orig-year = 1977 | year = 1979| isbn = 978-0-8065-0723-1}}</ref>
==Career== According to Stooges biographers, she was also Healy's offscreen girlfriend during that time.<ref name="Moe"/><ref name="Scrapbook">{{cite book | last = Lenburg| first = Jeff| author-link = Joan Howard Maurer |author2=Greg Lenbur | title = The Three Stooges Scrapbook| publisher = Citadel Press| year = 1994}}</ref><ref name="Chronicles">{{cite book | last = Forrester| first = Jeffrey| title = The Stooge Chronicles| publisher = Contemporary Books | year = 1981}}</ref> In the film ''Plane Nuts'', she plays a "fourth stooge", working as a partner to Moe, Larry, and Curly as they torment Healy during his stage act. She was a stage and vaudeville actress for several years before her film career.
Bonnell died of liver failure on March 14, 1964, at age 58 in Santa Monica, California.
==Filmography== *''Nertsery Rhymes'' (1933) as The Fairy Godmother (billed as "Bonny") *''Beer and Pretzels'' (1933) as Bonny *''Hello Pop!'' (1933) as Bonny *''Plane Nuts'' (1933) as Bonnie *''Myrt and Marge'' (1933) as gate crasher *''The Big Idea'' (1934) as cleaning lady *''Hollywood on Parade'' (1934) as woman in bar
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0094862|name=Bonnie Bonnell}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080215054039/http://threestooges.net/cast.php?id=574 Bonnie Bonnell] at [http://threestooges.net threestooges.net] *{{Find a Grave|6880436}} * [https://thirdbanana.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_thirdbanana_archive.html ''The Third Banana:The Mystery of Bonnie Bonnell''] {{ThreeStooges}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonnell, Bonnie}} Category:1905 births Category:1964 deaths Category:American vaudeville performers Category:Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica Category:20th-century American comedians Category:Comedians from Georgia (U.S. state)