Ann Miller

Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier, better known as Ann Miller (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an America

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n singer, dancer and actress.

Miller was born in Chireno

Chireno, Texas

Chireno is a city in Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States. The population was 405 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Chireno is located at ....

 in Nacogdoches County in east Texas

Texas

Texas is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies"...

, the daughter of Clara Emma (née

Married and maiden names

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 Birdwell) and John Alfred Collier, a criminal lawyer

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 who represented the Barrow Gang

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were well known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who, with their gang, traveled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were known nationwide...

, Machine Gun Kelly

Machine Gun Kelly

George Kelly Barnes aka George "Machine Gun" Kelly aka George R. Kelly was a notorious American criminal during the prohibition era....

, and Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson

Lester Joseph Gillis , known under the pseudonym George Nelson, was a bank robber and murderer in the 1930s better known as Baby Face Nelson due to his youthful appearance and small stature.-Early years:...

, among others. Miller's maternal grandmother was Cherokee

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The Cherokee are a Native American people from the Southeastern United States...

. Miller's father insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was often called Annie.

Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier, better known as Ann Miller (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an America

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

n singer, dancer and actress.

Early life

Miller was born in Chireno

Chireno, Texas

Chireno is a city in Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States. The population was 405 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Chireno is located at ....

 in Nacogdoches County in east Texas

Texas

Texas is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies"...

, the daughter of Clara Emma (née

Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....

 Birdwell) and John Alfred Collier, a criminal lawyer

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver...

 who represented the Barrow Gang

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were well known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who, with their gang, traveled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were known nationwide...

, Machine Gun Kelly

Machine Gun Kelly

George Kelly Barnes aka George "Machine Gun" Kelly aka George R. Kelly was a notorious American criminal during the prohibition era....

, and Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson

Lester Joseph Gillis , known under the pseudonym George Nelson, was a bank robber and murderer in the 1930s better known as Baby Face Nelson due to his youthful appearance and small stature.-Early years:...

, among others. Miller's maternal grandmother was Cherokee

Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native American people from the Southeastern United States...

. Miller's father insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was often called Annie. She took up dancing to exercise her legs to help her rickets

Rickets

Rickets is a softening of bones in children potentially leading to fractures and deformity. Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in many developing countries. The predominant cause is a vitamin D deficiency, but lack of adequate calcium in the diet may also lead to rickets...

. She was considered a child dance prodigy

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. In an interview featured in a "behind the scenes" documentary on the making of the compilation That's Entertainment III

That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was followed by two sequels and a related film called That's Dancing!....

, she said that Eleanor Powell

Eleanor Powell

Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.-Early life:...

 was an early inspiration.

Career

At the age of 13 Miller had been hired as a dancer in the "Black Cat Club" in San Francisco (she had told them she was 18). It was there she was discovered by Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy...

 and talent scout/comic Benny Rubin

Benny Rubin

Benny Rubin was an American comedian and film actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Rubin made more than 200 radio, film and television appearances over a span of 50 years.-Radio and television:...

. This led Miller to be given a contract with RKO in 1936 at the age of 13 (she had also told them she was 18) and she remained there until 1940. The following year, Miller was offered a contract at Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

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. She finally hit her mark (starting in the late 1940s) in her roles in MGM musicals such as Kiss Me Kate, Easter Parade, and On the Town

On the Town (film)

On the Town is a 1949 movie musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of a Broadway stage musical produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage version; for...

.

Miller popularized pantyhose

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 in the 1940s as a solution to the problem of continual torn stockings during the filming of dance production numbers. The common practice had been to sew hosiery to briefs worn by Miller. If torn, the entire garment had to be removed and resewn with a new pair. At Miller's request, hosiery was manufactured for her as a single pantyhose.

Miller was famed for her speed in tap dancing. Studio publicists concocted press releases claiming she could tap 500 times per minute, but in truth, the sound of ultra-fast "500" taps was looped in later. Because the stage floors were slick and slippery, she actually danced in shoes with rubber soles. Later she would loop the sound of the taps while watching the film and actually dancing on a "tap board" to match her steps in the film.

She was known, especially later in her career, for her distinctive appearance, which reflected a studio-era ideal of glamor: massive black bouffant hair, heavy makeup with a slash of crimson lipstick, and fashions that emphasized her lithe figure and long dancer's legs. Her film career effectively ended in 1956 as the studio system lost steam to television, but she remained active in the theatre and on television. She starred on Broadway in the musical "Mame

Mame

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" in 1969, in which she wowed the audience in a tap number created just for her. In 1979 she astounded audiences in the Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 show Sugar Babies

Sugar Babies

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with fellow MGM veteran Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney

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, which toured the United States extensively after its Broadway run. In 1983 she won the Sarah Siddons Award

Sarah Siddons Award

The Sarah Siddons Society is an American non-profit organization founded in 1952 by prominent Chicago theatre patrons with the goal of promoting excellence in the theatre. The Society presents the Sarah Siddons Award annually to an actor for an outstanding performance in a Chicago theatre production...

 for her work in Chicago theatre

Chicago theatre

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.

She appeared in a special 1982 episode of The Love Boat

The Love Boat

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, joined by fellow showbiz legends Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman was an American actress and singer of the musical theatre. Known for her powerful voice, she was often referred to as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage".-Early life:...

, Carol Channing

Carol Channing

Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer and actress. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...

, Della Reese

Della Reese

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, Van Johnson

Van Johnson

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, and Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader.Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s...

 in a storyline that cast them as older relatives of the show's regular characters. In 2001 she took her last role, playing Coco in auteur director David Lynch

David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...

's critically acclaimed Mulholland Drive

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Mulholland Drive is a 2001 neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring and Justin Theroux. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

. Her last stage performance was a 1998 production of Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre , multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize...

's Follies

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Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. Several of its songs have become standards, including "Broadway Baby," "I'm Still Here," "Too Many Mornings," "Could I Leave You?" and "Losing My Mind." The play was nominated for eleven Tonys and won...

, in which she played the hardboiled survivor Carlotta Campion and received rave reviews for her rendition of the anthemic "I'm Still Here".


Miller also performed a guest appearance on Home Improvement as a dance instructor to Tim and Jill. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Ann Miller has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Hollywood Walk of Fame

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 at 6914 Hollywood Blvd.

Miller was parodied on Saturday Night Live. She was played by Molly Shannon as a talk show host, with Debbie Reynolds (played by Cheri Oteri), on a show called Leg Up.

She died at the age of 80 from cancer

Cancer

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, which had metastasized to her lungs, and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery

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 in Culver City, California

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.

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Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables (1934 film) Anne of Green Gables is a 1934 film directed by George Nichols Jr., based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The actress who portrayed Anne Shirley, Dawn O'Day, changed her stage name to Anne Shirley after making this film.This modest film became a surprise hit in 1934,... The Good Fairy The Good Fairy (film) The Good Fairy is a romantic comedy film written by Preston Sturges, based on the 1930 play A jó tündér by Ferenc Molnár as translated and adapted by Jane Hinton, which was produced on Broadway in 1931... The Devil on Horseback New Faces of 1937 The Life of the Party Stage Door Stage Door Stage Door is a RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier,... Radio City Revels Having Wonderful Time Having Wonderful Time Having Wonderful Time is a 1938 romantic comedy film released by RKO Radio Pictures.-Plot summary :A bored New York office girl , goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains called Camp Carefree, for rest and to get away from the noise, busy, city life and finds a handsome waiter , and they fall in... You Can't Take It with You You Can't Take It with You (film) You Can't Take It With You is a comedy film directed by Frank Capra adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The cast includes James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold.... Room Service Room Service (1938 film) Room Service is an RKO film comedy starring the Marx Brothers and based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It co-stars Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Alexander Asro, and Frank Albertson.-External links:*... Tarnished Angel Too Many Girls Too Many Girls (musical) Too Many Girls is a Broadway musical comedy and a 1940 film version of the show, starring Lucille Ball.-Broadway version:Too Many Girls opened October 18, 1939, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by George Marion Jr. It was produced by George Abbott... Hit Parade of 1941 Melody Ranch Melody Ranch Melody Ranch is a 1940 western film which tells the story of a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the town... Time Out for Rhythm Time Out for Rhythm Time Out for Rhythm is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Rudy Vallee, Ann Miller and The Three Stooges.-Plot:Harvard educated Danny Collins and street-wise Mike Armstrong team up after a chance meeting to form the most successful talent agency in New York City... Go West, Young Lady True to the Army Priorities on Parade Reveille with Beverly Reveille with Beverly Reveille with Beverly is an American film starring Ann Miller, directed by Charles Barton, released by Columbia Pictures, based on the Reveille with Berverly radio show hosted by Jean Ruth Hay... What's Buzzin', Cousin? Hey, Rookie Jam Session Carolina Blues

1945 1945 in film The year 1945 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring a ghost named Casper.* With Rossellini's Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins.... 1946 1946 in film The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*November 21 - William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives premieres in New York featuring an ensemble cast including Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell.*December 20 - Frank Capra's It's a... 1948 1948 in film The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue ... 1949 1949 in film The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1949.shtml- Awards :Academy Awards:*Adam's Rib*The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr... 1950 1950 in film The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue ... 1951 1951 in film The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue ... 1952 1952 in film The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.... 1953 1953 in film The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue ... 1954 1954 in film The year 1954 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda. The two were married in 1927.* A reproduction of "America's First Movie Studio", Thomas Edison's Black Maria, is constructed... 1955 1955 in film The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released.... 1956 1956 in film The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* August 4 - The last film serial, Blazing the Overland Trail from Columbia Pictures, is released.* November 15 - Elvis Presley's first film, Love Me Tender, opens.... 1976 1976 in film The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film... 1994 1994 in film The year 1994 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :*This was the Highest Grossing film of 1994 Worldwidesource: - Awards :Academy Awards:* Andre... 2001 2001 in film The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. -Top-grossing films:... 2003 2003 in film The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,... 2004 2004 in film The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...

Eadie Was a Lady Eve Knew Her Apples The Thrill of Brazil Easter Parade The Kissing Bandit On the Town On the Town (film) On the Town is a 1949 movie musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of a Broadway stage musical produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage version; for... Watch the Birdie Texas Carnival Two Tickets to Broadway Lovely to Look At Lovely to Look At Lovely to Look At, a remake of the Broadway musical Roberta, is a 1952 MGM musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy.-Plot:Tony Naylor, Al Marsh and Jerry Ralby are looking for backers for their new Broadway show. They have just run out of options when Al gets a letter from his Aunt's attorneys and... Small Town Girl Small Town Girl (1953 film) Small Town Girl is a musical film directed by László Kardos and starring Jane Powell, Farley Granger, and Ann Miller. Busby Berkeley choreographed several dance numbers. Bobby Van performed the memorable "Street Dance", in which he hopped all around town. The film features song performances by... Kiss Me Kate (1953) Deep in My Heart Hit the Deck Hit the Deck (1955 film) Hit the Deck is a 1955 musical film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Jane Powell. Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Raymond, Ann Miller, Russ Tamblyn,and Vic Damone. It was based on the musical of the same name.-Cast:... The Opposite Sex The Opposite Sex The Opposite Sex is a musical remake of the 1939 classic comedy The Women. Both films are based on Claire Boothe Luce's original play... The Great American Pastime Won Ton Ton A Century of Cinema A Century of Cinema A Century of Cinema is a 1994 documentary directed by Caroline Thomas about the art of filmmaking , containing numerous interviews with some of the most influential film personalities of the twentieth century.... ♦ That's Entertainment! III Mulholland Drive Mulholland Drive (film) Mulholland Drive is a 2001 neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring and Justin Theroux. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival... Broadway: The Golden Age Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Broadway: The Golden Age is a 2004 documentary by Rick McKay, telling the story of the "golden age" of Broadway by the oral history of the legendary actors of the 40s and 50s, incorporating rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos.The film,... ♦ Goodnight, We Love You ♦

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1941 1941 in film The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:...

Meet the Stars #8:   Stars Past and Present Screen Snapshots   Series 21, No. 1

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Some of the Best Mighty Manhattan,   New York's Wonder City'

Further reading

• Oderman, Stuart, Talking to the Piano Player 2. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN #1-59393-320-7.

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