Mews Small

Mews Small, born in 1942 in the United States, is an American actress and singer, credited at times as Marya Small, whose first acting work came in a 1966 production of The Sound of Music staged in Stowe, Vermont. She went on to appear in many films and television shows, and she created the part of Frenchy in Grease when that musical first played Broadway. She is best known as Candy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Dr. Nero in Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973), and she played Frankie, a role inspired by Janis Joplin, in the animated film American Pop (1981). On television she appeared in 1975 in the debut episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Small also sings with her band, Mews Small and The Small Band, which released the CD Do What You Do in 2008, and she writes songs with Suzy Williams.