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Best performance was arguably her show-stopping appearance at The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967) where her singing and dancing to the title song of Georgy Girl (1966) stopped the show. The Academy had a hard time getting the audience to sit down and stop applauding.

A leading lady of light musicals, the bright-eyed Gaynor is best remembered for Süd Pazifik (1958). She also hosted a string of successful annual musical TV specials in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Her husband, Jack Bean, was also her manager,.

She is the main character's inspiration in Neil Jordan's 2006 movie Breakfast on Pluto.

She was director Billy Wilders first choice to play Sugar in Some Like it Hot until he learnt that Marily Monroe was interested.