Reviews

This musical is about the romance between a WWII army nurse named Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) and a mysterious French plantation owner named Emile DeBecque (Rossano Brazzi) whose romance hits a snag when she learns DeBecque has two Polynesian children.

Rossano Brazzi a respected Italian stage actor, played a Frenchman who has escaped criminal charges in France, seeking refuge as a plantation owner in the South Pacific.