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Ultimately, Mitzi Gaynor, who had prior work in musical films, and had tested twice for Nellie, was cast in the role. [6] Rossano Brazzi was cast as Emile, a role that was first offered to such established stars as Charles Boyer , Howard Keel , and Fernando Lamas . [ 5 ]
Gaynor's greatest international fame came from her starring role as Ensign Nellie Forbush in the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. For her performance, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical at the 1959 awards .
Mitzi Gaynor, the star of Golden Age musicals such as South Pacific and Les Girls, who also gained acclaim for a string of Emmy-winning TV specials, has died. She was 93. She was 93.
Mitzi Gaynor, whose singing and dancing brightened Hollywood musicals throughout the 1950s, including trying unsuccessfully to "wash that man right outa my hair" as nurse Nellie Forbush in "South ...
It was first introduced by Mary Martin in the original Broadway production and sung by Mitzi Gaynor in the 1958 film adaptation. In the show, Nellie sings this song after being convinced that, despite the fact that Emile killed a man accidentally in a fight, there is good in him—and so she is elated to be in love with him.
The screen version of “South Pacific” received three Academy Award nominations and won for best sound, while Gaynor was a best actress nominee for a Golden Globe. The role of the love-sick nurse Nellie, created on Broadway by Mary Martin, had been eagerly sought by Hollywood stars. Sinatra helped Gaynor land it.
Mitzi Gaynor, the midcentury Hollywood star who appeared in the movie musicals "South Pacific," "Les Girls" and "There's No Business Like Show Business," died Thursday. She was 93. She was 93.
South Pacific was made into a film of the same name in 1958, and it topped the box office that year. Joshua Logan directed the film, which starred Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall and France Nuyen; [181] all of their singing voices except Gaynor's and Walston's were dubbed.