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Mitzi Gaynor (1931-) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is 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 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
- Sort Mitzi Gaynor movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Mitzi Gaynor movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- 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
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Mitzi Gaynor Table
- Five Mitzi Gaynor movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 29.41% of her movies listed. South Pacific (1958) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Mitzi Gaynor movie grosses $111.80 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 8 Mitzi Gaynor movies are rated as good movies…or 47.05% of her movies. Les Girls (1957) is her highest rated movie while Take Care of My Little Girl (1951) is her lowest rated movie.
- Five Mitzi Gaynor movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 29.41% of her movies.
- Three Mitzi Gaynor movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 18.75% of her movies.
- An average “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 8 Mitzi Gaynor movie scored higher that average….or 47.05% of her movies. Les Girls (1957)) got the the highest UMR Score while Take Care of My Little Girl (1951) got the lowest UMR Score.
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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I have seen 6 Mitzi Gaynor movies.
My favourites in order are:
South Pacific
Les Girls
There’ No Business Like Show Business
The other films I have seen in order of preference are:
The Joker is Wild
My Blue Heaven
Happy Anniversary
Hey Flora.
1. Your total of 6 puts youin second place…..behind Greg’s 7 and ahead of me and Steve’s lowly 2.
2. I have not seen any of your favorites but i want to see all of then.
3. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Mitzi Gaynor.
HI BRUCE
1 In her short career Mitzi mad 17 films, 16 of which you list above and the 17th [Surprise Package with Yul Brynner] you record on Brynner’s page and give it an adjusted gross of $39.4 million.
2 Mitzi appeared in 5 stand-alone movies from 1951 – 1954 which have a total adjusted domestic gross in your chart of almost $305 million [average of about just about $60 million] but otherwise South Pacific excepted, she was in supporting parts or ensemble pictures. After South Pacific in which she was 2nd billed to Latin heartthrob Rossano Brazzi] she made just 3 more movies [including Surprise Package] all of which bombed with a paltry overall adjusted gross of around $157 million in your tables [average approx. $53 million].
3 Thus Mitzi could not be said to have ever been a leading box office star in her own right but I thought her one of the sexiest ladies around in the 50s and therefore welcome this new page.
Hey Bob
1. Thanks for the stats breakdown on Mitzi Gaynor.
2. Lots of good tidbits.
3. Not sure why Surprise Package did not originally download with the rest of her movies….but it is now on the table.
4. Glad you like our UMR selection of Mitzi Gaynor.
Good stuff.
Thank you. Did not seem to be like a cry baby yesterday. Her last movies were the ones I liked the most. My mom and grandmother loved Mitzi Gaynor. Her television specials were events in my house. Love the Oscar video. She is alive and well. It was worth the wait.
Hey Anonymous…no problem…..and now you have Gaynor Page. Glad you and your family enjoyed her television specials. Thanks for the feedback.
Out of the sixteen films listed on this page, I have seen seven of them with LES GIRLS easily being the best of the bunch. The other Mitzi Gaynor movies I have seen are THE JOKER IS WILD, SOUTH PACIFIC, THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS, THE BIRDS AND THE BEES, ANYTHING GOES, and WE’RE NOT MARRIED. Mitzi gave a good performance in LES GIRLS but the late, great Kay Kendall stole the show in that film and won a Golden Globe for her performance. LES GIRLS was one of director George Cukor best films as well in my opinion. Just my opinion but Mitzi gave pleasant and professional performances in her films. Nothing more and nothing less.
Hey Greg. Your 7 is the current leader in our tally contest. Easily beating me and Steve’s lowly 2. The only one I have seen on your list is We’re Not Married. I will have to add Les Girls to my list of movies to watch. Thanks for the tidbits on Cukor and Kay Kendall. Good stuff.
I was planning on doing a video on Mitzi but she has appeared in so few movies.
Of the 16 films on the chart I’ve seen just 2 – There’s No Business Like Show Business and South Pacific.
I might have seen Les Girls in the past, can’t remember, maybe The Joker is Wild too. There are many films I’ve seen back in the 70s on TV with my parents in which I’ve forgotten the titles. I should have been jotting them down in a notebook like Dan.
Another good page for movie buffs Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve…we are tied at two…..which might not sound too impressive but it is almost 13% of her movies. I have seen We’re Not Married and My Blue Heaven but admit I do not remember her parts in those movies.
I think I will eventually see the two you have seen. Her response has been greater than I was expecting….so a video might be popular as well. For shame on you for not writing down the movies you saw in the 1970s…..Dan and I are very disappointed in you……lol.