It was Sinatra who helped Gaynor land it. 1958: American actress Mitzi Gaynor visits Hawaii to film the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical 'South Pacific'. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images ...

I have. “I don’t know if there is an actual name for this type of person, but to protect her privacy, I will refer to her as a Mitzi. “I first met my ‘Mitzi’ back in the early Forties ...

Mitzi, always with her late manager husband Jack Bean never an arm’s length away from her, was among the first headliners to play the new Holiday Star Theatre when it opened in December 1979.

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 ...