South Pacific actress Mitzi Gaynor has died at the age of 93.
The musical superstar’s managers, Rene Reyes and Shane Rosamonda, announced on X on Thursday that the actress had died of natural causes.
“As we celebrate her legacy, we offer our thanks to her friends and fans and the countless audiences she entertained throughout her long life. Your love, support and appreciation meant so very much to her and was a sustaining gift in her life,” they wrote about their “caring and loyal” friend.
“We take great comfort in the fact that her creative legacy will endure through her many magical performances captured on film and video, through her recordings and especially through the love and support audiences around the world have shared so generously with her throughout her life and career. Please keep Mitzi in your thoughts and prayers.”
Gaynor, born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, is easiest known for taking part in Ensign Nellie Forbush within the 1958 movie adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical South Pacific, wherein she sang the well-known song I am Gonna Wash That Man Trusty Out of My Hair. She became once nominated for a Golden Globe for her efficiency.
Throughout her eight-decade profession as an entertainer, Gaynor also starred within the movie musicals There would possibly perchance be No Trade Admire Cloak Trade, The rest Goes and Les Ladies and movies reminiscent of The Birds and the Bees, We’re No longer Married! and For Treasure or Money, which became once her final movie role in 1963.
After her movie profession, Gaynor appeared on TV diversity reveals and fronted her have specials, entertained audiences with a stage reveal, and launched two albums, Mitzi and Mitzi Gaynor Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin.
The superstar married agent and producer Jack Bean in 1954 and so that they remained together except his death in 2006.
