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 , 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.
Known as "Little Mitzi" early in her career, she was the first child Paramount Pictures ever signed to a multi-picture contract.
One of her fans once sent her a live baby alligator.
Was named after vaudeville performer Mitzi Hajos Marshall, wife of actor Boyd Marshall.
Introduced the Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart song "My Funny Valentine" when she performed it for the first time on stage in the original Broadway production of "Babes in Arms" (Shubert Theatre, 1937).
