The American actress, singer, and dancer Mitzi Gaynor was given the name Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber. We’re Not Married!, There’s No Business Like Show Business, The Birds and the Bees, and South Pacific, the 1958 movie picture adaptation of the Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, are some of her well-known films.

Why is Mitzi Gaynor in a wheelchair?

The sight of Mitzi Gaynor entering the Walt Disney Theatre in a wheelchair was disconcerting, but she quickly put our anxieties to rest when she explained that she had injured herself while executing a lift in rehearsals. This vivacious 88-year-old is still going strong, and nothing seems to slow her down.

Michael Feinstein, the organization’s founder, admitted Gaynor on September 30, 2017, into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame, which honors lyricists, composers, and performers who contributed to the creation of “the soundtrack of our lives” through American popular songs.