Mitzi Gaynor
Ens. Nellie Forbush
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Synopsis. Sent on a mission to the South Pacific during World War II, Marine lieutenant Joseph Cable catches his first glance of the islands as his plane sails overhead. Meanwhile, on the beach below, Luther Billis, a fast-talking, wise-cracking sailor, tries to sell grass skirts to Bloody Mary, the bawdy trader who controls the concession.
South Pacific (1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) of the U.S. Navy falls for middle-aged French plantation owner Emile De Becque (Rossano Brazzi), but recoils upon discovering that he's fathered two mixed-race...
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On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission. Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse?
Produced by Rodgers & Hammerstein and 20th Century Fox, the film version of South Pacific premiered on March 19, 1958. Directed by original Broadway director and co-librettist Joshua Logan, the film starred Mitzi Gaynor as Ensign Nellie Forbush, opposite Italian film star Rossano Brazzi as Emile de Becque.
South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Michener 's 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific.
Overview. Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair?
