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Mitzi Gaynor was born as born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber on the 4th September 1931, in Chicago, Illinois USA and is a Golden Globe Award- nominated actress, singer and dancer, best known to the world for her appearance in the musical “South Pacific” (1958), as Ensign Nellie Forbush, USN, among many other appearances.
Have you ever wondered how rich Mitzi Gaynor is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Gaynor’s net worth is as high as $10 million, an amount earned through her successful career in the entertainment industry, which started in the late ‘40s. Aside from film appearances, notable for her singing, Mitzi was featured in several Academy Film Award Ceremonies, performing some of her most successful film hits, which also improved her wealth.
Mitzi Gaynor Net Worth $10 Million
Mitzi is the daughter of dancer, Pauline Fisher and her husband Henry von Gerber, who was a violinist, music director, and cellist. Her parents divorced and her father remarried, and she became step-sister to Donald W. Duncan, famous anti-war activist.
From Chicago, she and her family moved to Elgin, and then to Detroit, Michigan, and when she turned eleven, they moved to Hollywood. Starting as a child, Mitzi took ballet lessons and as she grew up she also took singing lessons. When she turned 13, she joined Los Angeles Civic Light Opera company as a singer and dancer, and then four years later lied about her real age in order to enroll at Hollywood High School, and to sign a seven-year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, although she was released from her contract after four years. During that time, she featured in musicals such as “My Blue Heaven” (1950), “Take Care of My Little Girl” (1951), “Golden Girl” (1951), then “Bloodhounds of Broadway” (1952), “Down Among the Sheltering Palms” (1953), next to Jane Greer and William Lundigan, and “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (1954), starring Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe and Donald O’Connor. Her net worth had a sound base already.
After Fox, she worked for several other production houses, including Paramount, Rodgers and Hammerstein, MGM among others. She continued to build her name in the entertainment industry by appearing in such musicals as “Anything Goes” (1956) with Bing Crosby, and Zizi Jeanmaire, then the Oscar Award- winning “The Joker Is Wild” (1957) with Frank Sinatra and Jeanne Crain, and the same year she featured in the Oscar Award- winning “Les Girls” with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall. The following year came her most notable role as Ensign Nellie Forbush, USN in the Oscar Award- winning “South Pacific” (1958), starring Rossano Brazzi and John Kerr. Before she retired from acting, Mitzi featured in “Surprise Package” (1960), and “For Love or Money” in 1963, next to Kirk Douglas, and Gig Young. Since then she has toured extensively, and has created several TV specials, which only increased her wealth.
Regarding her personal life, Mitzi was married to Jack Bean from 1954 until 2006, when he died; Jack was also her manager. The couple was childless.
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Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Movies
South Pacific, Les Girls, There's No Business Like Show Business, Anything Goes, The Joker Is Wild, Golden Girl, Bloodhounds of Broadway, We're Not Married!, Surprise Package, My Blue Heaven, The I Don't Care Girl, Happy Anniversary, Take Care of My Little Girl, The Birds and the Bees, Three Young ...
TV Shows
Mitzi and a Hundred Guys, Mitzi...Roarin' in the 20's, The Donald O'Connor Show
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Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.
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[on her co-stars] I never worked with a stinker. How great is that!
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Best performance was arguably her show-stopping appearance at the 39th Academy Awards where her singing and dancing "Georgy Girl" stopped the show. The Academy had a hard time getting the audience to sit down and stop applauding.
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997
TV Movie documentary performer: "Anything You Can Do"
Eye for an Eye
1996
performer: "Anything Goes"
The 39th Annual Academy Awards
1967
TV Special performer: "Georgy Girl"
The Ed Sullivan Show
1964
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Happy Anniversary
1959
performer: "Happy Anniversary"
Bing Crosby and Dean Martin Present High Hopes
1959
TV Special performer: "High Hopes", "Talk to Me", "Cheek to Cheek" - uncredited
The Jack Benny Hour
1959/I
TV Special performer: "Mr. Wonderful", "Everybody Loves to Take a Bow" - uncredited
South Pacific
1958
performer: "A Cock-Eyed Optimist" 1949, "Twin Soliloquies Wonder How It Feels" 1949, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" 1949, "Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening" 1949, "A Wonderful Guy" 1949, "Act I Finale" 1949, "Honey Bun" 1949, "My Girl Back Home" 1949, "Dites Moi" reprise and Orchestral Finale 1949 - uncredited
Les Girls
1957
performer: "Les Girls", "Ladies in Waiting", "Why Am I So Gone About that Gal?" - uncredited
The Birds and the Bees
1956
performer: " The Same Thing Happens With The Birds And The Bees", "La Parisienne"
Anything Goes
1956
performer: "Anything Goes", "You're The Top", "It's De-lovely", "Blow Gabriel Blow"
There's No Business Like Show Business
1954
performer: "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'", "Lazy", "A Sailor's Not a Sailor 'Til a Sailor's Been Tattooed", "Alexander's Ragtime Band" - uncredited
The 26th Annual Academy Awards
1954
TV Special performer: "The Moon Is Blue"
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1953
performer: "THE DRUM CHANT", "WHAT MAKE DE DIFF'RENCE"
The I Don't Care Girl
1953
performer: "Pretty Baby", "Beale Street Blues" uncredited, "The Johnson Rag" uncredited, "On the Mississippi" uncredited, "I Don't Care" uncredited, "I Don't Care" Reprise uncredited, "Kiss Me My Honey, Kiss Me" uncredited
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1952
performer: "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" uncredited, "Cindy", "Bye Low", "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" uncredited, "Eighty Miles Outside of Atlanta" uncredited, "I Wish I Knew" uncredited, "Jack of Diamonds"
Golden Girl
1951
performer: "California Moon", "Sunday Morning", " I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land", "Kiss Me Quick and Go", "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers", "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" - uncredited
My Blue Heaven
1950
performer: "Cosmo Cosmetics", "Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard" - uncredited