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Emmy® winning and Golden Globe® nominated actress and musical performer, MITZI GAYNOR, made her motion picture debut alongside Betty Grable in the 20th Century Fox film production My Blue Heaven and went on to dazzle audiences in some of the most revered musicals of Hollywood’s “Golden Age” including There’s No Business Like Show Business with Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe, Anything Goes with Bing Crosby and Donald O’Connor, Les Girls with Gene Kelly, and most notably as “Ensign Nellie Forbush” in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress.
Gaynor continued her film career starring opposite Frank Sinatra in The Joker is Wild, David Niven and Carl Reiner in Happy Anniversary (1959); followed by Surprise Package with Yul Brynner & Noel Coward; and the comedy For Love or Money with Kirk Douglas.
Her fabled Las Vegas debut in 1961 established her as one of the nation’s top live performers. In the years since, her acclaimed annual concert tours visited theatres and concert halls across North America for six decades.
Concurrent with her film & concert career, her innovative annual television specials, including Mitzi…and 100 Guys, and Mitzi…Roarin’ in the 20’s, garnered 17 Emmy nominations, winning 6 awards. The specials were celebrated in the PBS musical documentary, Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years. The documentary earned Gaynor her own Emmy Award® for Outstanding Entertainment Special.
Gaynor continued her film career starring opposite Frank Sinatra in The Joker is Wild, David Niven and Carl Reiner in Happy Anniversary (1959); followed by Surprise Package with Yul Brynner & Noel Coward; and the comedy For Love or Money with Kirk Douglas.
Her fabled Las Vegas debut in 1961 established her as one of the nation’s top live performers. In the years since, her acclaimed annual concert tours visited theatres and concert halls across North America for six decades.
Concurrent with her film & concert career, her innovative annual television specials, including Mitzi…and 100 Guys, and Mitzi…Roarin’ in the 20’s, garnered 17 Emmy nominations, winning 6 awards. The specials were celebrated in the PBS musical documentary, Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years. The documentary earned Gaynor her own Emmy Award® for Outstanding Entertainment Special.
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