Mitzi Gaynor

Mitzi Gaynor

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

История

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.

Профиль

Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor

Фильмы

Рита Морено: Девушка, решившая рискнуть
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Биографический фильм, рассказывающий о простой девушке из Пуэрто-Рико, которая прошла путь от никому неизвестной иммигрантки до звезды Голливуда.
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.
For Love or Money
Kate Brasher
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.
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
An accidental slip reveals that a happily married couple were intimate before marriage.
Юг Тихого океана
Ensign Nellie Forbush, USN
1943 год. Флот Соединенных Штатов установил несколько военных баз на Соломоновых Островах для подготовки к вторжению в Новую Гвинею. Веселые моряки, летчики и пехотинцы неплохо проводят время на песчаном берегу под тенью пальм, распевая лихие песни и знакомясь с местными девушками. Здесь сам воздух пропитан запахом любви и флирта.Один из них жизнерадостный лейтенант Джозеф Кэйбл, молодой герой из морской пехоты, страстно влюбляется в нежную и наивную красавицу Лиат, которая отвечает ему пылкой взаимностью. Тем временем, на одном из островов живет французский плантатор по имени Эмиль де Бек. Молоденькая медсестра Нелли с военной базы влюбляется в этого зрелого мужчину и даже не прочь видеть его своим избранником, но все не так просто…
Герлз
Joanne Henderson
Бэрри, Анжель, Джой и Сибил — бывшие члены популярного европейского кабаре «Бэрри Николс и Лес Герлз». Через несколько лет после распада группы Сибил публикует мемуары о том, что происходило за кулисами между Бэрри и его партнершами в романтическом плане. Анжель возмущена откровениями и подает на Сибил в суд, начинается разбирательство, и фильм превращается в музыкальный «Расемон», когда каждый из главных героев рассказывает историю так, как он ее помнит. Все их воспоминания очень сильно различаются…
Джокер
Martha Stewart
Джо Льюис, успешный певец Чикагских клубов 20-х годов, получает выгодное предложение от конкурирующего клуба. Это не нравится боссам мафии, владеющим клубом, и они ставят Джо ультиматум: или он продолжает выступать у них, или его карьера, как и жизнь, будет короткой.
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.
Что бы ни случилось
Patsy Blair
Билл Бенсон и Тэд Адамс должны выступить совместно в большом Бродвейском шоу. Для подготовки своих номеров они отправляются в Париж, где каждый из них в тайне от другого ищет партнершу для номера и, конечно же, находит. Билл блондинку — американку Патси Блэр, а Тэд брюнетку — француженку Габи Дюваль. Обе девушки великолепно танцуют и поют, и каждая из них может стать именно той звездой, которую полюбит вся Америка, но роль солистки только одна. Каждый из парней в тайне от другого приглашает свою претендентку на главную роль на борт трансконтинентального лайнера, который доставит их из Европы в Америку…
Нет такого бизнеса, как шоу-бизнес
Katy Donahue
Этель Мермэн и Дэн Дэйли здесь главные люди, как в водевиле Донахью, которые выносят на сцену сначала одного, потом другого и затем третьего из своих отпрысков для последнего поклона на бис, отпуская шутки и смешные телодвижения на бегу, а в конце оказывается, что в колоде есть еще четвертый и пятый Донахью.
Three Young Texans
Rusty Blair
A Texan robs a train in an effort to prevent his father from committing the crime. A young girl attempts to help him after learning about the theft. A cowboy friend demands a share of the money.
A Star Is Born World Premiere
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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?
Мы не женаты
Patsy Reynolds
Юридическая ошибка объединила в комедийный сюжет пять супружеских пар. Их брачные контракты не зарегистрированы документально и по своей сути они жили в браке тридцать месяцев неофициально. Каждая из пар по-своему отреагировала на правительственное письмо, известившее их о том, что они не женаты.
Золотая девушка
Lotta Crabtree
В заштатный американский городишко приезжает знаменитая танцовщица Лола Монтес. Лотта Крэбтри, жизнерадостная, слегка наивная девушка, с детства мечтает стать артисткой, но ее родители - Мэри Энн и Джон Крэбтри, не очень одобряют подобный выбор. Лотте приходится применять хитрые ходы, чтобы попасть на концерт, который проходит в местном салуне. Семья Лотты содержит скромный пансион-гостиницу, это их единственное средство к существованию. Все работы по пансиону лежат на матери, в то время, как отец - лентяй и большой любитель азартных игр.
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.