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Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno) (The Bronx, N.Y. October 22, 1920 - Huntington Beach, CA, May 24, 1969) was a talented child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early talkie era. Sometimes cast in such conventional juvenile parts as Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, opposite Jackie Coogan and Jackie Searl. At 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 went on to Broadway, where she starred in the original production of 'Lorenz 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.

Filmography

Lost in Alaska
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Santa Fe Trail
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Little Orphan Annie
Girl Crazy
Skippy
Newly Rich
The Stolen Jools
Dude Ranch
Finn and Hattie
Huckleberry Finn
Love among the Millionaires
Paramount on Parade
The Santa Fe Trail
Tom Sawyer
Honey
The Marriage Playground

Stageplay

Billion Dollar Baby
Let Freedom Sing
Walk With Music
Babes In Arms

Death

Long retired, Mitzi Green died of cancer at the age of 48. She is buried at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, Mission Hills, California.

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