Mitzi Gaynor

Mitzi Gaynor

Nacimiento : 1931-09-04, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Historia

A leading lady of light musicals, the bright-eyed Gaynor is best remembered for "South Pacific". She also hosted a string of successful annual musical TV specials in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Perfil

Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor

Películas

Rita Moreno: una chica que decidió ir a por todas
Self
Un vistazo a la vida y obra de Rita Moreno, desde sus humildes comienzos en Puerto Rico hasta el éxito en Broadway y Hollywood.
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Self (archive footage)
Gavin MacLeod and Marion Ross host a Christmas celebration that features classic performances of popular holiday standards and traditional carols performed, throughout decades past, by an array of artists, including Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Brenda Lee, Eddy Arnold, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Gene Autry, Jimmy Boyd, the Supremes, Rosemary Clooney, the Lennon Sisters, Burl Ives, Mahalia Jackson, Mitzi Gaynor, Julie Andrews, the Beach Boys, the Carpenters, Jose Feliciano, the Drifters, Ronnie Spector, the Harry Simeone Chorale, and David Bowie.
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's frank and open conversations combine with personal interviews from some of the greats who have worked with him.
Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years
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The ultimate collection of song and dance performances from Gaynor's classic network television specials - unseen for three decades - MITZI GAYNOR: RAZZLE DAZZLE! THE SPECIAL YEARS is a new documentary that celebrates a landmark career through new interviews with Mitzi and many others that worked with her. A reflective and entertaining glimpse into the television variety show at its zenith, taking viewers on a nostalgic trip through Gaynor's TV years.
Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not
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Mitzi Gaynor and her guests Gavin MacLeod (The Love Boat), John McCook (The Young and the Restless), and musician Benny Goodman explore trends of the 1970's ranging from Jazz and Disco to Soap Operas and King Tut-mania. Songs include "Satin Doll," "I'm Hip" (with Goodman), "Nice Work if You Can Get it," and "Can't Smile Without You."
Mitzi... Zings Into Spring
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In this musical salute to Spring, Mitzi Gaynor is joined by country music star Roy Clark (Hee Haw), actor Wayne Rogers (MASH) and the US Olympic Gymnastics Team for a colorful tribute in song, dance and comedy sketches to the earth's season of renewal. Songs include "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," "Isn't it Romantic," and "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s
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Mitzi Gaynor welcomes her guests Carl Reiner (Dick Van Dyke Show), Ken Berry (Mayberry R.F.D.) and Tony-winner Linda Hopkins to an hour, blending animation and live action, celebrating the era of flappers, speakeasies and great jazz. Songs include "Everything Old is New Again," "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)," "Runnin' Wild," and "The Charleston."
Mitzi & 100 Guys
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Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) and Jack Albertson (Chico and the Man), plus 28 celebrities as her "Million Dollar Chorus." Songs performed include: "I Got the Music in Me," "The Most Beautiful Guy in the World," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life."
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
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Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The cast also attend a party performing "The Little Things We Do Together" from Stephen Sondheim's Company.
Mitzi... The First Time
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Mitzi Gaynor in a song-dance-comedy hour with guests Ken Berry (Mayberry R.F.D.), Dan Dailey (My Blue Heaven) and Mike Connors (Manix) as they relive memorable "First Times" of life. Television technical advances also allow for a studio-bound Mitzi to electronically dance in and out of the newly installed $1.6 million jumbo scoreboard at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Mitzi's 2nd Special
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Mitzi Gaynor opens her second special with a dazzling performance of "Let Go." Additional songs include "Poor Papa," and "What'll I Do." She welcomes guest star Ross Martin (The Wild, Wild, West) for a musical-comedy spoof of Gone with the Wind. Other comedy skits include Mitzi as "The Kid" describing a school recital, and as a Hungarian Gypsy performing "Those Were the Days."
Mitzi
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Mitzi Gaynor welcomes guests George Hamilton & Phil Harris (The Jungle Book) for a sparkling hour of music, comedy and dance. Songs performed include "Everybody Loves My Baby," "Gentle on My Mind," "Pretty," and "Love Is Blue." Mitzi & George parody classic movies on the late-late show, George playing Cary Grant to Mitzi's Rosalind Russell, Rock Hudson to her Doris Day, and Glenn Ford to her Rita Hayworth.
Tres herederas
Kate Brasher
Un abogado de vida alegre es contratado por una millonaria para una tarea inusual: emparejar a sus tres hijas con los tres candidatos que ella misma ha seleccionado, todos ellos muy buenos partidos: un industrial, un inspector de hacienda y un individuo que se dedica a rehabilitar presos.
Marilyn
Self ("There's No Business...") (archive footage) (uncredited)
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
Surprise Package
Gabby Rogers
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
The first Timex Show from Frank Sinatra with friends Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and others.
Happy Anniversary
Alice Walters
El abogado Chris Walters y su esposa Alice viven felices junto a sus hijos Ockie y Debbie en el barrio de Gramercy Park, en Nueva York. Están pensando cómo celebrar su décimo tercer aniversario de casados: se les ocurre tener una cita romántica como en los viejos tiempos, pero, de repente, surge un motivo de desacuerdo y tensión: la presencia de un televisor en la casa puede llegar a arruinar la armonía familiar.
Al sur del Pacífico
Ensign Nellie Forbush, USN
En 1943, la Armada de los Estados Unidos ha establecido numerosas bases en las islas Salomón, con el objetivo de prepararse para una posible invasión en las costas de Nueva Guinea. En una de las islas vive un jardinero francés llamado Emile de Becque, a quien la Armada busca para contratar como "elemento de reconocimiento" y obtener información de las tropas japonesas invasoras. Antes de completar su misión, Becque se encuentra con la enfermera Nellie Forbush de la Armada. En medio de un musical, la trama restante se devela. South Pacific es una adaptación cinematográfica de 1958 del musical South Pacific, basado en la novela Tales of the South Pacific, de James A. Michener.
Las Girls
Joanne Henderson
Historia de una grupo de tres encantadoras chicas cantantes que descubren que sus románticas aventuras tomaron un camino previsto ya en su época de esplendor. La explosiva combinación de Barry -Gene Kelly-, Angele -Taina Elg-, Joy -Mitzi Gaynor- y Sybil -Kay Kendall- componían los miembros de Barry & Les Girls, un popular grupo de cabaret europeo. Años después, el grupo se disolvió. Una demanda por la publicación de escandalosas revelaciones de los componentes llevará a los antiguos componentes del grupo ante un juicio.
La máscara del dolor
Martha Stewart
Joe E. Lewis, un prometedor cantante, pierde la voz a causa del ataque de unos gángsteres Al verse obligado a cambiar de profesión, decide trabajar como humorista.
The Birds and the Bees
Jean Harris
On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.
Entre rivales todo vale
Patsy Blair
Bill Benson y Ted Adams son dos estrellas del mundo del espectáculo que viajan alrededor del mundo en busca de las dos mujeres que necesitan para la comedia musical que preparan. Segunda versión musical de la obra de Guy Bolton y P.G. Wodehouse, tras la realizada por Lewis Milestone 20 años antes, "Todo vale" (1936). Sigue teniendo las canciones de Cole Porter, y vuelve a estar protagonizada por Bing Crosby y a ser desarrollada en un crucero, pero el argumento es diferente. Esta fue la única película dirigida por uno de los tres fundadores del Actors Studio, Robert Lewis (1909-97), al margen de uno de los fragmentos de Ziegfeld Follies (1945), y también representó el último trabajo de Bing Crosby para la Paramount, estudio al que estuvo ligado durante 22 años.
Luces de candilejas
Katy Donahue
Los Donahue son una familia de actores que vive pelenamente dedicada al mundo del espectáculo. De escenario en escenario, representando los números más variopintos, los Donahue hacen las delicias del público.
tres jóvenes de Texas
Rusty Blair
Tres jóvenes están a punto de cruzar sus destinos en Texas para siempre: el primero de ellos planea el robo de un tren para impedir que su padre cometa un delito; el segundo tratará de ayudarle cuando descubre que el golpe está a punto de producirse y el último, amigo común, reclama una parte del botín obtenido. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Rozouila
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
The I Don't Care Girl
Eva Tanguay
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Emily Ann Stackerlee
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
No estamos casados
Patsy Reynolds
El juez de paz Melvin Bush casa a varias parejas antes de que su ingreso en la magistratura sea oficial. Años después, esos matrimonios se enteran de que sus bodas no son válidas.
Golden Girl
Lotta Crabtree
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.
Take Care of My Little Girl
Adelaide Swanson
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
My Blue Heaven
Gloria Adams
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
It's Your Health
Peggy Hendricks, Jim's girlfriend
Tommy Davis asks dentist Dr. Hendricks about his older brother Jim, a star halfback who failed his Annapolis dental examination. The doctor offers good advice, the kind one should share with his friends. Tommy invites his whole gang to hear Dr. Hendricks explain the importance of dental health and how dental disease can be controlled. Dr. Hendricks tells a fascinating story. He talks about mouth hygiene, dental care and the role foods play in protecting dental health. Tommy and his friends learn the facts, and the care of their teeth and health takes on a new, highly important light. As for Jim, he profits, too. The story ends on the note that dental health is essential in health generally, appearance and personality.