Francesca Mitzi Berger was born on September 4, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. Her grandparents belonged to the Hungarian aristocracy and her mother was a well-known dancer who was always aware of her daughter’s future.
Being very young, Mitzi began taking singing and dancing classes, debuting in his teens at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.
Her enormous talent for show business, as well as her great attractiveness and physical bearing, made her not go unnoticed in Hollywood and by 1950 he managed to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox, remaining in this study until the middle of the decade.
With them he filmed films such as We are not married in 1952, appeared in The I don`t care girl, a film directed by Lloyd Bacon, and in 1954 it is worth highlighting Footlight Lights by the great Walter Lang.
But the little success that Mitzi gained in this study made her decide to leave it in 1954. Shortly after retiring from Fox, the actress meets Jack Bean, a representative of artists who would be in charge of launching her to fame, and with whom the young woman would end up marrying.
With her new surname, Mitzi Gaynor and her manager and husband, they manage to sign a contract with Paramount, where their career has just become known thanks to achievements in several estimable films such as The Mask of Pain filmed in 1957, The Girls by George Cukor and South Pacific by Joshua Logan.
But despite being high-quality films, his works were not perfect for the box office, a situation that Mitzi managed to overcome by appearing on the sets with performances in the world of cabaret and on the small screen.
In the sixties he decided to retire from the cinema, after appearing in A blonde for a gangster and Three heiresses in 1963, a comedy film where he worked alongside Kirk Douglas and was directed by Michael Gordon.