Mitzi Green

 Mitzi Green, born Elizabeth Keno, (October 22, 1920 – May 24, 1969)

She was a child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early talkie era. She then acted on Broadway and in other stage works, as well as in films and on television. Green was cast in such conventional juvenile parts as Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer (1930) and Huckleberry Finn (1931) opposite Jackie Coogan and Jackie Searl. She also starred in the title role of Little Orphan Annie. At the age of 14, she played a soubrette role in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934). This film closed out the first stage of her Hollywood career. Green later went to Broadway, where she starred in the original production of Rodgers and Hart's Babes in Arms (1937). She made one more film in 1940, then went back to stage and nightclub work, including Walk With Music by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer and the Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Billion Dollar Baby. Semi-retired, she appeared occasionally in summer stock and dinner theatre for several years. Mitzi Green died from cancer at the age of 48, and is interred at Eden Memorial Park in Los Angeles, CA.