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Mitzi Gaynor (born September 4, 1931 in  Chicago,
Illinois) is an United States|American actress,
singer, and dancer. 

Gaynor's original surname was Gerber; she
sometimes claimed to be descended from royalty
with the birth name Francesca Marlene von Gerber.
She trained as a ballerina as a child and began
her career as a chorus dancer.  She sang, acted
and danced in a number of film musicals, often
paired with some of the biggest male musical
stars.  Notable early roles included There's No
Business Like Show Business (1954) which featured
Irving Berlin's music and also starred Ethel
Merman and Marilyn Monroe, Les Girls (1957,
directed by George Cukor) with Gene Kelly and Kay
Kendall, and Anything Goes (1956), co-starring
Bing Crosby and Donald O'Connor and with
screen-play written by Guy Bolton and P.G.
Wodehouse.

Gaynor's biggest international fame came from her
starring role in the film version of Richard
Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's South Pacific,
one of the most successful musicals of all time.
For her performance, she was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award  for best actess. She made
films with many other well-known stars, including
Ginger Rogers, Frank Sinatra, David Niven, Dan
Dailey, Betty Grable and Oscar Levant. She made
her last film in the early 1960s; one of her last
films was the UK production Surprise Package
(1960), a musical comedy thriller directed by
Stanley Donen. Her co-stars were Yul Brynner and 
Noel Coward  and the film had a theme song by
Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. 

After her retirement from films, Gaynor remained a
popular favorite; she often performed songs at
Academy Awards ceremonies, starred in a series of
high-rated TV specials, had a This Is Your Life
special dedicated to her, and often appeared on
television and in local theater.

==Filmography==
*It's Your Health (1949) (short subject)
*My Blue Heaven (1950 movie)|My Blue Heaven (1950)
*Take Care of My Little Girl (1951)
*Golden Girl (1951)
*We're Not Married! (1952)
*Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
*The I Don't Care Girl (1953)
*Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)
*Three Young Texans (1954)
*There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
*The Birds and the Bees (1956)
*Anything Goes (1956)
*The Joker Is Wild (1957)
*Les Girls (1957)
*South Pacific (1958)
*Happy Anniversary (1959)
*Surprise Package (1960)
*Lykke og krone (1962) (documentary)
*For Love or Money (1963)

==External links==

*imdb name|id=0310989|name=Mitzi Gaynor