A 1962 photo of American actor Mitch Gaynor, who passed away on the 17th (local time).
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(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Mina Lim = Actress Mitch Gaynor, who played the female lead in the 1950s Hollywood box office hit ‘South Pacific‘ (1958), has passed away. Age 93.
According to the Associated Press and CBS on the 17th (local time), Gaynor’s manager announced that the actor died of old age in Los Angeles (LA) on this day.
Gaynor has been loved by the public for nearly 80 years as an entertainer across American films, TV, and stage performances.
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In Hollywood, the representative works include ‘South Pacific’, ‘There’s No Life Like a Show’ (1954), ‘Les Girls’ (1957), ‘Anything Goes’ (1956), ‘The Golden Girl’ (1951), and ‘Joker is Wild’. ‘(1957), he mainly played in box office hits in the 1950s.
In particular, in ‘South Pacific’, a movie adaptation of the popular Broadway musical of the same name, she played the role of Nellie, a nurse who falls in heartbreaking love on a remote island in the South Pacific.
For this film, Gaynor was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress the following year, but did not win.
After this film, he moved on to television, appearing in series such as ‘Here Comes Donald’ and ‘The Jack Benny Hour’.
A 2021 photo of American actor Mitch Gaynor, who passed away on the 17th (local time).
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Later in her career, she turned to stage performance, producing musical shows with her husband and manager, Jack Bean, at theaters in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
She was once renowned as the highest-paid female performer in Las Vegas, USA, and in 1970, she became the first woman to win the ‘Star Entertainer of the Year’ award given by the Las Vegas local government.
“I love touring and I’ve been touring my whole life,” Gaynor said in a 2003 interview. “We keep going back to the same places, and it’s like visiting a friend’s house.”
She married her husband, Jack Bean, in 1954 and was married for 52 years until Bean passed away in 2006. The AP reported that they have no children.
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