Career
Dona Massin appeared in over 100 films throughout her career. Dona Massin"s family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was eight years old. She started her show business career as a child.
Also at the age of eight, she sang My Manitoba at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles and received a standing ovation.
She then was discovered by Maurice Kosell and was given free dancing lessons due to her natural talent. At the age of 14, Dona was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and worked on many of the musicals.
She also worked at 20th Century Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures. In 1939, at the age of 21, Massin was signed to production of, where she worked as a choreographer assisting Bobby Connolly.
The film took 6 months to complete.
Dona was the first to sing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", and it was she who pushed for the song to be in the film. She also originated the skip that was performed down the yellow brick road. In the film itself, Massin can be seen grooming the Lion in the scene at the beauty shop.
Mervyn Leroy put her in that part to bring good luck to the film.
