Mitzi Gaynor

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: September 4, 1930

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 Rod…more

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Actor

Mitzi: A Tribute to the American Housewife
Mitzi... Zings into Spring
Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not
Mitzi... the First Time
Mitzi... Roarin' in the '20s

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Career Milestones

1992
Hosted "Comedy Classics" on the cable channel American Movie Classics (AMC)
1989
Played Reno Sweeney in national tour of "Anything Goes"
1978
Last variety special to date, "Mitzi ... What's Hot, What's Not"
1973
Began five year affiliation with CBS; first special, "Mitzi ... the First Time"
1968
Headlined her first TV variety special, "Mitzi" (NBC)