Sorry, no real back-story here.

Bonnie Bannon, center.

Bonnie Bannon.... smiling

Nope, don't have any idea... I just thought they were pleasant enough to upload. Perhaps you feel the same way?  :)

Pauline Francis Bannon.... the really early years.

Bonnie Bannon

Bonnie Bannon

I am pretty sure that "Nana" was already known as "Bonnie" by friends and family long before she came to Hollywood, or long before these were taken. She looks so impossibly young to me in these photos (she would have been 100 in June of this year) that I am going to speculate that these could have been taken shortly after her arrival in Hollywood, from Fresno, Ca.
           She was not without a plan, as she did win some sort of Starlet search in her region by one of the major studios. I wonder how often she must have heard things  growing up like "You are so pretty" and "You sure are beautiful" as well as others along those lines. She came a long way from being a rancher's daughter being raised in Central California...... and not all of it so great, as the proven fact of 4 marriages will attest.

Bonnie Bannon.... this is getting old.

"The Great Ziegfeld".... at least, I am pretty sure.

This particular photo was found floating on the web somewhere. As stated in the header, I am pretty sure it is from "The Great Ziegfeld". It is a bit hard to tell, but I believe this to be the same rock as the one seen in the "Hollywood Cavalcade" that I posted awhile back. If so, then it could have been one of those "go to" spots that they like to use back then. Bonnie (if you did not already know) is fourth from the right, or is it left? I am pretty sure that that is Mary Lange on the far left, and Wanda Perry, third from the right..... the others I just don't know.

Gold Digger's of 1933..... We are a few gals short.

The credit for finding this one goes to Richard Smits, of the Netherlands. Before corresponding with him by email, Bonnie had maybe 16 IMDB.com credits. Because of Richard's tireless efforts (for Bonnie and others in the same Starlet System) I believe her credit count has just surpassed 30. I have plenty of newspaper articles that she kept that I should "mine" so that she can get the credit(s) that she deserves. Just one more thing I hope to get around to this year.

Somewhere between those acting jobs, aka, a girl's gotta eat.

 These 3 are from Bonnie's personal collection. I think they are self-explanatory. What I do not know at the time of this posting is whether or not she ever really pursued commercial work like this. I have intentionally left her note as to what one of them is. I could have easily cropped it out before uploading it, but I thought it was better to leave it in, to tell the story, so to speak, and that it is in her own hand from probably more that 75 years ago. On a different note, I am flattered that this Blog has gotten the visits that it has (over one thousand as of today's date). This tells me that there must be an interest in this sort of thing. I will try not to disappoint.