Mitzi Gaynor, Infinity Award

For eight decades, the Emmy® Award-winning actress, dancer, singer, writer, Mitzi Gaynor, sang and danced her way through a multifaceted career in entertainment. Her career was celebrated in film, television, and performing arts centers throughout the U.S. and Canada, including the renowned movie musicals There’s No Business Like Show Business, Anything Goes, and her signature performance as “Ensign Nellie Forbush” in South Pacific.

Mitzi pioneered the original character-driven Broadway-style stage show – an innovative fast-paced show featuring an ensemble of singers and dancers with a movie-star performer at its focal point. Mitzi later incorporated elements of her stage shows on television, in which her show received a total of 17 primetime Emmy nominations and 6 Emmy Awards. Her documentary, Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years, won a New York NATAS Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Special.

In recent years, Mitzi was inducted into the The Great American Songbook Hall of Fame and presented with the Entertainment Community Fund’s Medal of Honor for her charitable work.