1. Mitzi Green then acted on Broadway and in other stage works, as well as in films and on television.
13 Facts About Mitzi Green
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Mitzi Green was born in The Bronx on October 22,1920 to a Jewish family.
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Mitzi Green was a gifted mimic and her celebrity imitations were often worked into the films.
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Mitzi Green was cast opposite Jackie Coogan in two Mark Twain adaptations, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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Mitzi Green moved to RKO for two pictures, both adaptations of works from other media.
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Mitzi Green played the title role in Little Orphan Annie, based on the popular comic strip, with Edgar Kennedy as Daddy Warbucks.
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Mitzi Green appeared as the precocious kid sister in Girl Crazy, the first movie version of the George Gershwin-Ira Gershwin stage musical.
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Mitzi Green went on to Broadway, where she starred in the original production of Rodgers and Hart's Babes in Arms.
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Two of Mitzi Green's numbers in the musical were "My Funny Valentine," which would later become a jazz standard in many cover recordings and performances, and "The Lady is a Tramp".
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Mitzi Green 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 Mitzi Green musical Billion Dollar Baby.
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Mitzi Green married Broadway director Joseph Pevney and retired to raise a family.
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On radio, Mitzi Green starred in Passport to Romance, a program "spiced with music and comedy", which premiered on the Mutual Broadcasting System on April 5,1946.
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On May 24,1969, Mitzi Green died in Huntington Beach, California, at age 48, of cancer.