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Mitzi Gaynor, dancer, singer, actress and one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s golden age.
Her first starring role was for Twentieth Century Fox, Golden Girl in 1951. She went on to star in - among others - There’s No Business Like Show Business with Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe (1954), Les Girls opposite Gene Kelly (1957) and most notably in South Pacific in 1958. As the studios in the Sixties lost interest in the older stars, she turned to television where she produced and performed in a song-and-dance special every year from 1967-1978. And she kept on going from there, performing for American soldiers in USO shows and in one of her one-woman shows that toured the US for many many years. Her last show, Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the Sequins, toured from 2009-2014 when she was in her eighties! A remarkable, talented, energetic and upbeat woman.
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“Even today when I rehearse, I give it everything that I’ve got. If I’m in a performance and the lights go out, I glow in the dark. When you’re working before an audience, you have to make them feel like they can touch you. That’s the dancer within, reaching out.”
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