Mitzi Gaynor, whose songs and dances were popular in Hollywood musicals in the 1950s, including as Nurse Nellie Forbush in “South Pacific,” has died at age 93.
Gaynor died peacefully of natural causes, her team said Thursday.
“For eight decades, she entertained audiences in film, on television, and on stage. Offstage, she was a vibrant, extraordinary woman, a respectful and loyal friend, and a loving human being, very funny, and absolutely glorious,” he wrote his team. the X platform.
He had important roles in “The World of Fantasy”, in 1954, when he starred alongside Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe, and in “Les Girls”, in 1957, with Gene Kelly. In the same year he also participated in “Chorei Por Você”, with Frank Sinatra. A year earlier, he starred in “Marvels on Parade” with Bing Crosby and Donald O’Connor, singing the Cole Porter song that gave the film its English name, “Anything Goes.”
Gaynor’s film career lasted just over a decade, but she found success as a late-night entertainer and hosted a series of annual television variety specials in the 1960s and 1970s.
The artist was born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, in Chicago, the daughter of a dancer, violinist and musical director. After moving to California, she joined the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, adding three years to her actual age so that the company believed she was 16. Executives at 20th Century Fox discovered her and offered her a contract.
Source: Terra
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