Born in 1931, this American singer, actress and dancer (Frances Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber) trained as a ballerina before signing with Twentieth Century Fox at seventeen. She sang, acted and danced in numerous major musicals, and had an early role in "There's No Business Like Show Business" ('54).
She appeared in "Les Girls" in '57 with Gene Kelly, and a remake of "Anything Goes," ('56), but her greatest claim to fame was as Nellie Forbush in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific," for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. Remaining popular, she appeared between two sets of The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and released two albums, "Mitzi," and "Mitzi Gaynor Sings The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin."
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