Los Angeles, United States, Oct 17, 2024 (AFP) - Mitzi Gaynor, star of 'South Pacific,' dies aged 93

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2024-10-17
Mitzi Gaynor, best known for hit movie musical "South Pacific," has died at the age of 93, her representatives said Thursday. An actress, singer and dancer, Gaynor played the lead female role in the 1958 big-screen adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway sensation. Her performance as Nellie Forbush, a naive US Navy nurse who falls in love with a French expat plantation owner on a remote Pacific island during the Second Worl......
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