Biographie

4 septembre 1931 · Chicago, Illinois, États-Unis

17 octobre 2024 · Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis (causes naturelles)

Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber

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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 Pacifique Sud (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.

[on her co-stars] I never worked with a stinker. How great is that!

[on Stanley Donen] People often speak of a Golden Age of Hollywood when referring to his films. That's almost too abstract. Stanley helped make the movies sing and dance and be funny, and in doing so made a big, fabulous, golden, make-believe world very real in our lives. What a joy that we'll always get to delight in those precious gifts of his.

Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game. Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.

Anything Goes (1956) - $100,000