Miller, Ann

Miller, Ann
▪ 2005
Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier 
      American dancer and actress (b. April 12, 1919?, Chireno, Texas—d. Jan. 22, 2004, Los Angeles, Calif.), had a powerful machine-gun tap-dancing style—she claimed a speed of 500 taps a minute—that, accompanied by her effervescent personality, dazzled movie audiences of the 1940s and '50s and in the late 1970s and early '80s made her a star of the musical stage. Although she never achieved top-ranked movie stardom, her performance with Mickey Rooney in the vaudeville-style Sugar Babies on Broadway from 1979 to 1982 and then on tour brought her the celebrity status she had long sought. When she was a small child, Miller suffered from rickets and was given dancing lessons to straighten her legs. She began her career before she was a teenager, dancing on the vaudeville stage and in clubs, and made her film debut in New Faces of 1937. She went on to roles in Stage Door (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), and a series of low-budget movies that gained her the nickname “queen of the B's.” Her luck changed, however, when Cyd Charisse broke her leg and was unable to appear in Easter Parade, and Miller was chosen to replace her. This led to important roles in several films, including the classic On the Town (1949), Kiss Me Kate (1953), and Deep in My Heart (1954). With the waning in popularity of the movie musical in the 1950s, Miller concentrated more on performing in nightclubs and on television, and in 1969 she was a hit on Broadway when she took over the title role in Mame. In 1972 her flamboyant style was put to good use when she appeared in a TV commercial that featured a splashy production number with Miller dancing on a huge soup can. In her final motion picture role, she portrayed an eccentric landlady in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. (2001).

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