The original Broadway version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific premiered 75 years ago this year [in February, to be precise]. The stud-muffin-filled movie adaptation was released nine years later - and is still hot!
Showing posts with label South Pacific. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Pacific. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 April 2024
Saturday, 4 September 2021
Hold back, hold back - let go!
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One of our favourite "all-rounders"; our Patron Saint of Bugle Beads, the ever-shimmying, uber-camp saviour of the career of many a "safety gay" - Miss Mitzi Gaynor is 90 years old today! Lordy.
Miss Mitzi is one of the rare stars for whom the epithet "legend" was coined - she began her Broadway career in 1946, starred in her first film in 1950, was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award for her role in South Pacific in 1958, became the highest-paid female entertainer in Las Vegas in 1961, starred in nine television specials that received 16 Emmy nominations in the 1960s and 70s, returned to cabaret in the 1980s, became a newspaper columnist in the 90s, toured the US with her one woman show Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the Sequins from 2009 to 2014, was inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame in 2017 - and, despite her venerable age has never officially retired...
Time for a proper celebration of a monumental career, methinks!
And finally, a house favourite here at Dolores Delargo Towers. I practice these moves regularly:
Campness abounds!
Many happy retuns, Mitzi Gaynor (born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, 4th September 1931)!
Sunday, 12 July 2015
There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here
It is Sunday, a day when I traditionally indulge in BBC Radio 2's all-day "Our Kind of Music"-fest - which, of course, includes songs from the musicals...
And, as Steve Hayes aka "Tired Old Queen at the Movies" is here to explain, they don't get much gayer than South Pacific!
Mitzi Gaynor, lurid Technicolour, timeless songs, hunky boys and Bali Ha'i - what more could you want?
South Pacific on IMDB
Monday, 5 September 2011
Queen Mitzi
Some people may have thought - heaven forfend! - that I had somehow neglected the fact that Miss Mitzi Gaynor, our Patron Saint of the sequins-and-shimmy dancing so beloved of the residents of Dolores Delargo Towers, celebrated her 80th birthday yesterday.
But no!
As regular readers over the past four years may already have surmised, Miss Gaynor is not just queen of our hearts, but surely the Queen of my regular Tacky Music Monday slot. And so, without further ado, here is a cornucopia of performances by possibly the greatest purveyor of the "beginning-of-the-week-pick-me-up-music" that I always try and play for your delectation. [I may have played some, if not all, of these before at some stage, but so what?]
Now, that's the way to celebrate a Monday - happy (belated) birthday, Miss Gaynor!
Mitzi Gaynor on IMDB
Over at Dolores Delargo - The Museum of Camp, Miss Gaynor features in a glorious set of photos - a magnificent lady!
Thursday, 4 September 2008
She’s my little honey bun!
Amazingly, the fabulously camp dancer and actress Miss Mitzi Gaynor is still going strong, celebrating her 77th birthday today.
Here's the crowning glory from her sparkling career (in my opinion)...
Honey Bun (from South Pacific)
My doll is as dainty as a sparrow,
Her figure is somethin' to applaud.
Where she's narrow she's as narrow an arrow,
And she's broad where a broad should be broad.
A hundred and one pounds of fun,
That's my little honey bun!
Get a load of honey bun tonight.
I'm speakin' of my Sweetie Pie,
Only sixty inches high,
Ev'ry inch is packed with dynamite!
Her hair is blond and curly,
Her curls are hurly-burly.
Her lips are pips!
I call her hips 'Twirly' and 'Whirly.'
She's my baby, I'm her pap!
I'm her booby, she's my trap!
I am caught and I don't wanna run,
'Cause I'm havin' so much fun with honey bun!
I am caught and I don't wanna run,
'Cause I'm havin' so much fun with honey bun!
Believe me sonny!
She a cookie who can cook you 'till you're done,
Ain't bein' funny!
Sonny, put your money on my honey bun!
Mitzi Gaynor website
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