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Mitzi Gaynor (1931-2024) was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She was best known for 1954’s There’s No Business Like Show Business and 1958’s South Pacific. Her movie career lasted from 1950 to 1963. Mitzi Gaynor’s IMDb page shows 19 acting credits from 1949-1963. This page will rank 17 Mitzi Gaynor movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.
Mitzi Gaynor Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Mitzi Gaynor Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Mitzi Gaynor movies by co-stars of her movies
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- Sort Mitzi Gaynor movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Mitzi Gaynor movie received.
- Sort Mitzi Gaynor movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
Mitzi Gaynor Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Mitzi Gaynor
- Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber was born in Chicago, Illnois in 1931.
2. Growing up her nickname was “Mitzi”. When a Fox executive heard the name Mitzi Gerber, he thought it sounded like the name of a delicatessen, and they came up with a name that used the same initials. So Mitzi Gaynor was born.
3. Mitzi Gaynor biggest box office hit was 1958’s South Pacific. When looking at our All-Time Ticket sellers, South Pacific currently sits in the 71st spot. UMR All-Time Ticket Sellers
4. Mitzi Gaynor on her co-stars. “I never worked with a stinker. How great is that!”.
5. Mitzi Gaynor was not nominated for an Oscars®. She did received a Best Actress Golden Globe® nomination for 1958’s South Pacific.
6. Mitzi Gaynor was married one time. She was married to Jack Bean, a talent agent and public relations executive from 1954 to his death in 2006.
7. Following her film work, Mitzi Gaynor remained a popular favorite of the time. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, she starred in nine acclaimed television specials that garnered 16 Emmy® nominations
8. Many people thought Mitzi Gaynor’s best performance was her show-stopping appearance at the 39th Academy Awards® where her singing and dancing “Georgy Girl” stopped the show. The Academy® had a hard time getting the audience to sit down and stop applauding.
9. Mitzi Gaynor’s one-woman show, Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the Sequins, toured the United States and Vancouver, from 2009 thru 2014, including an acclaimed 2 week engagement in NYC.
10. Check out Mitzi Gaynor‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Rest in peace Mitzi Gaynor. I love you in South Pacific.
The above is from Deadline.
Thanks Dan. I heard this sad news yesterday, but could not update UMR until tonight. RIP Mitzi Gaynor.
Mitzi Gaynor has died.
Mitzi Gaynor, the actor, singer and dancer who starred in such 1950s Hollywood musicals as South Pacific and There’s No Business Like Show Business before going on to conquer the Las Vegas stage and TV variety specials, has died, her management team announced today. She was 93.
“As we celebrate her legacy, we offer our thanks to her friends and fans and the countless audiences she entertained throughout her long life,” Rene Reyes and Shane Rosamonda of Gaynor’s MGMT team said today in the statement announcing her death.
The statement added, “We take great comfort in the fact that her creative legacy will endure through her many magical performances captured on film and video, through her recordings and especially through the love and support audiences around the world have shared so generously with her throughout her life and career. Please keep Mitzi in your thoughts and prayers.”
Born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago on September 4, 1931, Gaynor had grown to national fame by the early 1950s as the star of Hollywood’s new wave of musicals such as There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954), Anything Goes (1956) with Bing Crosby and Donald O’Connor; and Les Girls (1957) with Gene Kelly.
The same year as Les Girls, Gaynor was cast in one of her most memorable roles as the girlfriend of nightclub comedian Joe E Lewis (played by Frank Sinatra) in The Joker Is Wild.
But her signature role came in 1958 when she was cast as Nellie Forbush in the screen version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. In her Golden Globe-nominated performance, Gaynor was treated with one of the musical’s most popular musical numbers: “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair.”
By the end of the decade Gaynor had also made inroads into TV variety shows, and by 1968 she was starring in her first NBC special called, simply, Mitzi. Gaynor and her show were so popular that she became a TV fixture in the 1970s, headling annual variety specials on CBS from 1973 to 1978.
Gaynor made many guest appearances on other variety shows, perhaps most notable on the February 16, 1964, episode of The Ed Sullivan Show, which also happened to feature the second appearance of The Beatles. During the episode, Gaynor, like the Beatles, performed from the stage of the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach. Her nine-minute segment including her memorable performance of Cole Porter’s Too Darn Hot.
In addition to her TV career, Gaynor was an immensely popular nightclub and Vegas performer. Her Vegas breakthrough came in 1961 with her show at the Flamingo Hotel, which reportedly broke box office records and reportedly made Gaynor the city’s highest-paid female entertainer. She would remain a Vegas, nightclub and touring performer for most of the rest of her life, with her later career including a 2008-2011 tour called Mitzi … Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins.
In 2008, the PBS documentary Mitzi Gaynor Razzle Dazzle: The Special Years highlighted her TV variety show specials.
Gaynor married Jack Bean, the man who would be her husband and manager until his death in 2006. The couple did not have children. Information on survivors was not immediately available.
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Hey Dan. Thanks for sharing this information on the late Mitzi Gaynor. Her movie career ended 61 years ago….seems she should have made some more movies. Rest in Peace Ms. Gaynor.