South Pacific: Directed by Richard Pearce. With Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr., Rade Serbedzija, Jack Thompson. During World War II, love is found between a career Navy nurse (Glenn Close) and an enigmatic French plantation owner (Rade Serbedzija), while
South Pacific: Directed by Joshua Logan. With Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston. On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mi
In 1960, two years after Gaynor’s Golden Globe-nominated performance in “South Pacific,” Gaynor and Bean bought theirSpanish-style villa in Beverly Hills, where they frequently entertained guests. That year, Gaynor also was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Later, her se...
Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of “South Pacific” and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, has died. She was 93. Gaynor, among the last survivors of the so-called golden age of theHol...
“South Pacific” was not the turning point in her career that Gaynor had hoped it would be, and she shifted her focus from film to television, making early appearances on Donald O’Connor’s variety series “Here Comes Donald,” and on CBS’ “The Jack Benny...
Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of "South Pacific" has died at the age of 93.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film "South Pacific" and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, has died. She was 93.
" and the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's smash hit "South Pacific.Gaynor beat out a plethora of Hollywood stars, including Doris Day, Elizabeth Taylor and Susan Hayward, who vied for the role of Nellie Forbush, a Navy nurse who sings of how she wants to "wash that man right ...
South Pacific Golden Gate Theater, San Francisco; 2,400 seats; $99 top Production: A Bob Boyett, NETworks Presentations, Bob Bartner/Howard Panter for Ambassador Theater Group, Roger Berlind, Thomas I. Miller presentation of a Lincoln Center Theater production of a musical in two acts with...
Mitzi Gaynor in a publicity still for the movie "South Pacific."Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images It was the peak of a string of Hollywood hits for Gaynor, but as musicals fell out of favor (her last film was the 1963 comedy "For Love or Money" with Kirk Douglas), she turned ...