She was best known for starring in the 1958 screen version of “South Pacific.” But her Hollywood career was brief, and she soon shifted her focus to Las Vegas and TV.

Mitzi Gaynor, an actor, singer and dancer who starred in the 1950s movie musicals 'South Pacific' and 'Anything Goes,' died Thursday at 93.

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,