The singer, dancer and actress was a movie-musical legend, Las Vegas headliner and centerpiece of annual TV specials.

Mitzi Gaynor has died at the age of 93, her management team announced in a statement on Oct. 17. The actress was best known for her roles in movie musicals in the 1950s, most notably 1958’s South Pacific. She also starred in a series of Emmy-winning TV specials.

(Reuters) - Mitzi Gaynor, whose singing and dancing brightened Hollywood musicals throughout the 1950s, including trying unsuccessfully to "wash that man right outa my hair" as nurse Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific," has died at the age of 93.

Mitzi Gaynor was an incredible singer, dancer and actress, best known for her work in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. In fact, she was so popular in the ’60s that she received the top billing over the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor, starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of "South Pacific" and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly.

Gaynor was born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago in 1931 to a musical family. Her father was a violinist and cellist and her mother was a dancer, Variety reported. She was a dancer and a singer when she was young,

Mitzi Gaynor, the actor, singer and dancer who starred in such 1950s Hollywood musicals as South Pacific and There’s No Business Like Show Business before going on to conquer the Las Vegas stage and TV variety specials,