With guest musician Jeff “Skunk” Baxter on the steel guitar

Actress, singer and dancer Mitzi Gaynor was born Francesca Marlene
de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago. Her family first moved to Detroit and
when she was eleven to Hollywood where she trained as a ballerina as
a child and began her career as a chorus dancer. By the time Mitzi was
13 she was singing and dancing with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera
company.

Mitzi Gaynor with Rossano Brazzi in “South Pacific”, 1958

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John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon

1957

The Highwaymen, clockwise from top right: Steve Trott, Chan Daniels,
Bob Burnett, Dave Fisher and Steve Butts, in 1961.