Grace McDonald Green was an American

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 actress who appeared in a number of films in the early 1940s, although most were B movies

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. She and her brother Ray had their Broadway debut in 1937 in Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms

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as part of the dance team, and singing I Wish I Were in Love Again

I Wish I Were in Love Again

"I Wish I Were in Love Again" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney performed it in the 1948 film Words and Music...

. She made her screen debut in 1940's Dancing on a Dime.(27 January 1943). Theater Gossip, Evening Independent

In late 1944 she married Lt. Ralph Green and soon moved to Minneapolis, leaving Hollywood behind, and eventually having three children. She died of pneumonia in Scottsdale

Scottsdale, Arizona

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, Arizona

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on October 30, 1999.Hischak, Thomas S. The Oxford companion to the American musical: theatre, film, and television, p. 481 (2008)