Best performance was arguably her show-stopping appearance at The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967) where her singing and dancing to the title song of Georgy Girl (1966) stopped the show. The Academy had a hard time getting the audience to sit down and stop applauding.
A leading lady of light musicals, the bright-eyed Gaynor is best remembered for South Pacific (1958). She also hosted a string of successful annual musical TV specials in the late 1960s and early 1970s.