Mitzi Gaynor

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AKA: Mitzi Gerber, Frances Gerber, Franceska Mitizi Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 09/04/1930
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

biography

This blonde dancer and light actress appeared in Hollywood musicals beginning in the early 1950s. Among her more notable efforts were "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954), the 1956 remake of "Anything Goes", with Bing Crosby and Donald O'Connor, and "Les Girls" (1957), opposite Gene Kelly. Gaynor had two outstandig screen roles: as a girlfriend of nightclub comedian Joe E Lewis (played by Frank Sinatra) in "The Joker Is Wild" (1957) and as Nellie Forbush in the the screen version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" (1958).

Beginning in the late 1950s, Gaynor began to appear Continued

Credits

Nellie Forbush
1958
Martha Stewart
1957
Patsy Blair
Alice Walters
Kate Brasher
Gabby Rogers
Joy Henderson
Rusty Blair

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Raised in Detroit, Michigan
 
Moved to California to continue dance studies with same teacher, Mme Etienne
1942 
Member of the corps de ballet of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera
1946 
Toured in "Song of Norway"
1949 
Breakthrough stage role in the San Francisco stage production of "The Great Waltz"
Continued

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