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{{Short description|American actress (1908–1949)}}{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}

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| birth_place = Medaryville, Indiana, U.S.19491002mf=yes}}| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.| resting_place = | occupation = Actress| years_active = 1920–1946

• {{marriage|Robert Savage|1922|1922|reason=divorced{edih}
• {{marriage|Harry J. Bryant|1935}}

}}}}Geneva Doris Mitchell (February 3, 1908 – March 10, 1949) was an American actress.WEB,www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/689/Geneva+Mitchell/index.html, Geneva Mitchell, Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen, July 31, 2019, After beginning her entertainment career as a chorus girl at the age of twelve, she became more well known for her roles in several Hollywood films.

Early years

Mitchell was born in Medaryville, Indiana.BOOK, Ellenberger, Allan R., Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory, 2001, McFarland, 978-0-7864-5019-0,books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Geneva+Mitchell%22+actress&pg=PA27, January 16, 2020, en, Her mother, Verna Mitchell Foss, danced in the Ziegfeld Follies.NEWS, The final curtain,books.google.com/books?id=kyEEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Geneva+Mitchell%22+actress&pg=PA42, January 16, 2020, Billboard, October 13, 1951, 42,

Career

Mitchell started her career on the stage in a musical comedy. At age 17, she was in the choruses of Sally and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921.NEWS, Yale Student Weds Young Actress,www.newspapers.com/clip/22099603/the_buffalo_times/, The Buffalo Times, March 11, 1922, New York, Buffalo, 2, Newspapers.com, July 22, 2018, {{Open access}}She signed a contract with Warner Brothers in October 1929, and with Columbia Pictures in June 1934. Modern viewers will recognize Mitchell from her appearances in the Three Stooges 1935 films Restless Knights, Pop Goes the Easel, and particularly Hoi Polloi. In Hoi Polloi, Mitchell plays a dance instructor who directs the Stooges to “do exactly as I do.” Before she begins her dance, a bumblebee lands on her bare back, and then crawls under her dress. She becomes alarmed. Naturally, the Stooges mimic her every startled move. This hilarious footage was to be reused six years later in In the Sweet Pie and Pie.

Death

Poor health curtailed Mitchell’s career after 1936, as she appeared in only one film throughout the 1940s. She died in Los Angeles, California on March 10, 1949, at age 41.“Mrs. Geneva D. Tuttle.” Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 1949, p. 17.

Personal life

Mitchell’s circumstances often made the news. In March 1922,NEWS, Scion of Wealthy Family Weds 17-Year-Old Actress,www.newspapers.com/clip/22099339/geneva_mitchell/, The St. Louis Star and Times, March 10, 1922, Missouri, St. Louis, 10, Newspapers.com, July 22, 2018, {{Open access}} when she was 14, she married Robert Savage, the son of a millionaire, in Milford, Connecticut. Five days later, she returned his ring and said, “I’m too young to be a wife.“NEWS, This Follies Beauty Boasts Broadway’s Briefest Honeymoon,www.newspapers.com/clip/22098783/geneva_mitchell/, The Montgomery Advertiser, May 7, 1922, Alabama, Montgomery, 30, Newspapers.com, July 22, 2018, {{Open access}} On October 15, 1935, she married financier Harry J. Bryant in Yuma, Arizona.NEWS, Geneva Mitchell Weds, Returns To Job,www.newspapers.com/clip/42378634/geneva_mitchell/, January 16, 2020, Deseret News, International News Service, October 16, 1935, Utah, Salt Lake city, 7, Newspapers.com,

Partial filmography

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• Safety in Numbers (1930)
• The Doctor’s Wife (1930)
• The Single Sin (1931)
• Working Girls (1931)
• Night World (1932)
• Faithless (1932)
• The Girl From Calgary (1932)
• False Faces (1932)
• Get That Girl (1932)
• The Devil Is Driving (1932)
• Morning Glory (1933)
• I Am Suzanne (1933)
• Above the Clouds (1933)
• The Hell Cat (1934)
• Springtime for Henry (1934)
• The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
• Restless Knights (1935)
• His Bridal Sweet (1935)
• Pop Goes the Easel (1935)
• Hoi Polloi (1935)
• It Always Happens (1935)
• Behind the Evidence (1935)
• She Married Her Boss (1935)
• Western Courage (1935)
• Honeymoon Bridge (1935)
• Lawless Riders (1935)
• Fighting Shadows (1935)
• The Crime Patrol (1936)
• The Cattle Thief (1936)
• Andy Plays Hookey (1946)

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References

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External links

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• Glamor Girls of the Silver Screen
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