Mitzi Green
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Mitzi Green (born Elizabeth Keno in The Bronx on October 22, 1920 died May 24, 1969) was an American child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early talkie era.
She was cast in such conventional juvenile parts as Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, opposite Jackie Coogan and Jackie Searl. At the age of 14 she played a soubrette role in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934), the film that closed out the first stage of her Hollywood career.
She then went on to Broadway, where she starred in the original production of Rogers' and Hart' s Babes in Arms. Green made one more film in 1940, then went back to stage and nightclub work, reemerging on the big screen opposite Abbott and Costello in Lost in Alaska (1951) and in Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952). In 1955, she co-starred with Virginia Gibson and Gordon Jones in the sitcom So This is Hollywood (1955), in the role of Queenie Dugan, a hoydenish stuntwoman.
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[edit] Death
Long retired, Mitzi Green died of cancer at the age of 48 in Huntington Beach, California on May 24, 1969. She is buried at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, Mission Hills, California.
[edit] Filmography
- Lost in Alaska (1952)
- Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
- Santa Fe Trail (1940)
- Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
- Little Orphan Annie (1932)
- Girl Crazy (1932)
- Skippy (1931)
- Newly Rich (1931)
- The Stolen Jools
- Dude Ranch
- Finn and Hattie (1931)
- Huckleberry Finn
- Love among the Millionaires
- Paramount on Parade
- The Santa Fe Trail' (1930)
- Tom Sawyer (1930)
- Honey (1930)
- The Marriage Playground (1929)
[edit] Stage
- Billion Dollar Baby
- Let Freedom Sing
- Walk With Music
- Babes In Arms
