Mitzi Green

Mitzi Green

Mitzi Green, also known as Mitze Green, was born Elizabeth Keno in The Bronx on October 22, 1920. At age 3, she began appearing in her parents' vaudeville act. In the early 1930s, she starred in several popular films with Paramount Pictures, including Tom Sawyer (1930) and Huckleberry Finn (1931). She became known as "Little Mitzi," and she was the first child star to sign for a multi-picture contract with Paramount. Green had a natural talent for comedy and mimicry, and audiences were impressed by her uncanny imitations of Greta Garbo and George Arliss. She was also a gifted singer, performing two songs in Girl Crazy (1932). But her career as "Little Mitzi" would not last. Green matured quickly, and at age 14 she was cast in an adult role in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934), which marked the end of her career as a child star. Green left Hollywood and spent the next several years performing on Broadway and in night clubs. She starred in the original Broadway production of Rogers' and Hart's Babes in Arms, where she introduced the classic song "My Funny Valentine." During this time she appeared in only one film, Santa Fe Trail (1940), in which she had a bit part. Green's career as an adult star in Hollywood began in 1952, when she re-emerged on screen in Lost in Alaska (1952), opposite Abbott and Costello. She also appeared in Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952) and the sitcom So This Is Hollywood (1955), in which she played a perceptive stunt woman. After many years of retirement, Green died of cancer on May 24, 1969, in Huntington Beach, California. She was 48. She is buried in Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Mission Hills, California.

  • Title: Mitzi Green
  • Popularity: 1.468
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1920-10-22
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  • Also Known As: Elizabeth Keno
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Mitzi Green Movies

  • 1932
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    Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

    Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

    4 1932 HD

    In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master...

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  • 1930
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    Galas de la Paramount

    Galas de la Paramount

    1 1930 HD

    Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version...

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  • 1931
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    Skippy

    Skippy

    6.1 1931 HD

    Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

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  • 1932
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    Girl Crazy

    Girl Crazy

    4.5 1932 HD

    New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides...

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  • 1932
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    Little Orphan Annie

    Little Orphan Annie

    5.8 1932 HD

    Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on...

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  • 1952
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    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    6.9 1952 HD

    A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird,...

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    Tom Sawyer

    Tom Sawyer

    5.5 1930 HD

    The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous...

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    Love Among the Millionaires

    Love Among the Millionaires

    6 1930 HD

    A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he...

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  • 1934
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    Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

    Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

    4.2 1934 HD

    Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a...

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  • 1931
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    Finn and Hattie

    Finn and Hattie

    5.3 1931 HD

    The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who...

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  • 1931
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    Dude Ranch

    Dude Ranch

    4.5 1931 HD

    Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce...

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  • 1931
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    Huckleberry Finn

    Huckleberry Finn

    8 1931 HD

    A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences...

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  • 1930
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    Paramount on Parade

    Paramount on Parade

    6.4 1930 HD

    This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

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  • 1940
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    Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe Trail

    5.6 1940 HD

    As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

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  • 1931
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    Newly Rich

    Newly Rich

    3 1931 HD

    Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

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  • 1931
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

    6 1931 HD

    Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort;...

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  • 1930
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    Honey

    Honey

    5 1930 HD

    A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

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  • 1952
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    Lost in Alaska

    Lost in Alaska

    6 1952 HD

    After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

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  • 1929
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    The Marriage Playground

    The Marriage Playground

    5.8 1929 HD

    A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their...

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  • 1930
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    The Santa Fe Trail

    The Santa Fe Trail

    4.5 1930 HD

    A sheepman tries to hire Indians as herders. Though the Indians are blamed for farmers' losses, the hero shows that a white crook is responsible.

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  • 1931
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    The Stolen Jools

    The Stolen Jools

    5.6 1931 HD

    Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.529 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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