In 1948, at the age of 17, she signed a seven-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox. It was a Fox studio executive who suggested changing her name to Gaynor, feeling that Mitzi Gerber sounded ...
she signed a seven-year contract, changing her name after a Fox studio executive told her that Mitzi Gerber sounded like a delicatessen. After making her uncredited film debut at 19 as a ...
(Reuters) - Mitzi Gaynor, whose singing and dancing ... Gaynor died peacefully of natural causes, her management team said on Thursday. "For eight decades she entertained audiences in films ...