Sunday Profile: Entertaer Mzi Gaynor - CBS News

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• MZI GAYNOR REFLECTS ON HER TIME ON ‘ED SULLIVAN SHOW’ WH THE BEATL
• TCM CLASSIC FILM FT: MZI GAYNOR ON MARILYN, SATRA AND THE BEATL (VIO)
• FEBARY 16, 1964: THE BEATL (2ND APPEARANCE), MZI GAYNOR, ALLEN & ROSSI
• PRENTG MZI GAYNOR
• MZI GAYNOR
• SUNDAY PROFILE: ENTERTAER MZI GAYNOR

MZI GAYNOR REFLECTS ON HER TIME ON ‘ED SULLIVAN SHOW’ WH THE BEATL

I had 40-ch boobi, 16-ch waist, 36-ch hips, ” remisced Mzi Gaynor before liverg the kicker: “I uld hardly walk.

Mzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi stg together between scen on South Pacific 1958. But Febary 7, 1964, on Ed Sullivan’s CBS variety show, an timated 73 ln viewers tuned — but the Fab Four still ced top billg to Gaynor for the send of their three appearanc the followg Sunday.

TCM CLASSIC FILM FT: MZI GAYNOR ON MARILYN, SATRA AND THE BEATL (VIO)

Acrdg to Gaynor, Sullivan had been woog her to gut for a while, but her agent hband Jack Bean would always refe, sayg, “You don’t let her have enough time. ’” Ben Mankiewicz and Mzi Gaynor on the TCM Classic Cise (TCM) Four months later, the Sullivan show moved s entire productn down to the Deville Hotel Miami Beach, Florida. Gaynor remembers that John, Pl, Gee and Rgo rehearsed before she did — and her choreographer, Robert Sidney, was ls imprsed than the shriekg fans who seemed to be everywhere.

’” Ultimately, the band would open (wh “She Lov You, ” “This Boy” and “All My Lovg”) and close the show (wh “I Saw Her Standg There, ” “From Me to You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand”) — and Gaynor took over between wh a sizzlg “Too Darn Hot” number, pl the ballad “The More I See You” and an uptempo medley of “Birth of the Blu” and “When the Sats Go Marchg In. On Wednday eveng, I had the great pleasure of spendg some time wh Mzi Gaynor, the irreprsible actrs-sger-dancer whose reer began durg Hollywood's Goln Age and ntu to this day. )Gaynor was disputably one of the great beti of the fifti -- right up there wh the 's other killer "M's, " Marilyn, [Jayne] Mansfield and Mamie [van Doren], among others -- but great rol seemed to elu her for a number of years.

(In the film Gaynor famoly sgs, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair.

FEBARY 16, 1964: THE BEATL (2ND APPEARANCE), MZI GAYNOR, ALLEN & ROSSI

")South Pacific would bee the third hight-grossg film of the fifti, receive three Osr nomatns (wng one) and brg Gaynor a Goln Globe nomatn for bt actrs a mil or edy. But, wh the mil genre rapidly fadg, Gaynor would make only three more films. (After the show, Pl McCartney asked Gaynor for her tograph.

PRENTG MZI GAYNOR

)Gaynor also popped up on televisn other paci well to the seventi. On Wednday eveng, I had the great pleasure of spendg some time wh Mzi Gaynor, the irreprsible actrs-sger-dancer whose reer began durg Hollywood’s Goln Age and ntu to this day. Gaynor was disputably one of the great beti of the fifti — right up there wh the ’s other killer “M’s, ” Marilyn, [Jayne] Mansfield and Mamie [van Doren], among others — but great rol seemed to elu her for a number of years.

(In the film Gaynor famoly sgs, “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair. South Pacific would bee the third hight-grossg film of the fifti, receive three Osr nomatns (wng one) and brg Gaynor a Goln Globe nomatn for bt actrs a mil or edy. Gaynor also popped up on televisn other paci well to the seventi.

Show broadst om the Deville Hotel Miami Beach, --The Beatl (2nd appearance) - "She Lov You, " "This Boy, " "All My Lov', "I Saw Her Standg There, " "From Me to You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" --Mzi Gaynor (wh 4 male dancers-sgers) - "Too Darn Hot" and "The More I See You. " --Mzi Gaynor (wh dancers)Show broadst om the Deville Hotel Miami Beach, --The Beatl (2nd appearance) - "She Lov You, " "This Boy, " "All My Lov', "I Saw Her Standg There, " "From Me to You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" --Mzi Gaynor (wh 4 male dancers-sgers) - "Too Darn Hot" and "The More I See You. " --Mzi Gaynor (wh dancers) - Blu medley: "Birth of the Blu, " "St.

MZI GAYNOR

This past summer, six thoand people me out to the Los Angel County Arboretum to see legendary entertaer Mzi Gaynor, as the 88-year-old performed wh sger and pianist Michael Feste, and played wh the dience. She relled that a producer there thought her name sound like a litsen, "so he said, 'How about Gaynor, [like] Ja Gaynor? Mzi Gaynor the 1954 mil, "There's No Bs Like Show Bs, ".

"That's the hot number, " Gaynor said, gog through her scrapbook wh rrponnt Mo Roc. " Gaynor was jt 18 at the time; Hugh was his mid-forti. Was – " "I thk he wanted to get to my pants, " Gaynor replied.

SUNDAY PROFILE: ENTERTAER MZI GAYNOR

Today, Gaynor has more than jt memori, sportg the earrgs and necklace that Hugh gave her. " But then Gaynor did meet the love of her life, Hollywood producer and agent Jack Bean.