Mitzi Gaynor

Acting

Mitzi Gaynor

Born September 4, 1931 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died October 17, 2024 · aged 93

Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber (September 4, 1931 – October 17, 2024), known professionally as Mitzi Gaynor, was an American actress, singer, and dancer of Hungarian descent. A leading lady of light musicals, the bright-eyed star is best remembered for South Pacific (1958) – for which she earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Sh…

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South PacificSouth Pacific · 1958
South Pacific
6.11958
MovieMusicRomance
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
There's No Business Like Show BusinessThere's No Business Like Show Business · 1954
There's No Business Like Show Business
6.11954
MovieMusicComedy
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Lykke og kroneLykke og krone · 1962
Lykke og krone
9.01962
MovieDocumentary
Depicts the royal houses of Europe (Norwegian, British, Belgian and Dutch) as well as Iran and the Principality of Monaco.
We're Not Married!We're Not Married! · 1952
We're Not Married!
5.91952
MovieComedyRomance
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
The Joker is WildThe Joker is Wild · 1957
The Joker is Wild
8.11957
MovieDrama
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
For Love or MoneyFor Love or Money · 1963
For Love or Money
6.11963
MovieComedyRomance
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.
Les GirlsLes Girls · 1957
Les Girls
6.41957
MovieComedyMusic
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
Golden GirlGolden Girl · 1951
Golden Girl
6.41951
MovieDramaWestern
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.

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The I Don't Care GirlThe I Don't Care Girl · 1953
The I Don't Care Girl
7.31953
MovieMusic
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.

Eva Tanguay