Mitzi Gaynor

A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments , which is not part of a regular series of such anthology series as NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (1961–1978). The term originally applied especially to major dramatized presentations of an hour or two which were broadcast during...Read Full Story

Cabaret Review: "Mitzi Gaynor" by Jonathan Warman Mitzi walks onto the stage of the Regency Hotel Ballroom dressed in a sailor suit identical to the one she wore in the movie version of South Pacific, the film that solidified her reputation as a Hollywood song and dance gal. She launches into “Honey Bun” from that film, which includes the lyric “broad where a broad should be broad.” Gaynor’s club act, Razzle Dazzle! My Life behind the Sequins, is all about a show biz broad playing it broad...Read Full Story

Mitzi Gaynor Extends Feinstein's at Loews Regency Run Through May 29 (SOURCE: Brian Scott Lipton, TheatreMania.com) Film and stage star Mitzi Gaynor has extended the run of her show Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, which will now play May 18-29. The show is directed and choreographed by Tony Charmoli. The show will feature often hilarious recollections of her famous friends and costars, including Frank Sinatra, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Irving...Read Full Story

Mitzi Gaynor's still got some 'Razzle Dazzle' Ed Sullivan once said he tried for years to get movie and nightclub star Mitzi Gaynor on his Sunday night variety show. In late 1963, the glamorous singer-dancer finally said yes to an appearance to be broadcast live the next February from Miami Beach's Deauville Hotel. Gaynor, who will be receiving the BOB HARRINGTON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at THE BISTROS on April 13th at Gotham Comedy Club in NYC, recalls asking Sullivan who else would be on...Read Full Story

Mitzi Gaynor To Be Honoured With Mary Pickford Award At Satellites Actress/singer Mitzi Gaynor is to be honoured with the 2011 Mary Pickford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Entertainment Industry at the 16th annual Satellite Awards in Beverly Hills next month (Dec11). The There's No Business Like Show Business and Anything Goes star, who made her acting debut aged 17 in My Blue Heaven opposite Betty Grable, turned 80 in September (11). She says, "I am so very grateful to be able to...Read Full Story