Mitzi Green

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Mitzi Green (born Elizabeth Keno) (October 22, 1920 – May 24, 1969) was an American child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early talkie era.

Born in The Bronx, Green 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 for a couple of years. Green then married Broadway (and later movie and TV) director Joseph Pevney and retired to raise a family. In 1951, she returned briefly to the 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. After a brief stint on the nightclub circuit, Green retired again, although she did appear in summer stock and dinner theater around the Los Angeles area thereafter, and she appeared occasionally as a guest on talk shows.

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[edit] Death

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)

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