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Remembering Mitzi Gaynor: Looking Back on the Late Star’s Career and What She Was ‘Proudest’ Of


Mitzi Gaynor believed it was a 'privilege' to perform on screens and on stages. Closer takes you inside the late star's career and love life before her death.

“My mother and auntie took me to see Carmen Miranda in the stage revue The Streets of Paris,” she recalled to Closer last year. She pivoted to Las Vegas, where she headlined shows at the biggest casinos for more than a decade and became a fixture on TV variety specials. “My leading men included Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Donald O’Connor, Yul Brynner, David Niven and Kirk Douglas — wow!

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