Ann Miller actress
- All known tv series 13
- Total known movies 67
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJohnnie Lucille Collier (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004), known professionally as Ann Miller, was an American dancer, singer and actress. She is best remembered for her work in the Classical Hollywood musical films of the 1940s and 1950s.At age 13 in 1936, Miller became a showgirl at the Bal Tabarin. She was hired as a dancer in the Black Cat Club in San Francisco (she reportedly told them she was 18). It was there that she was discovered by Lucille Ball and talent scout/comic Benny Rubin (although some sources say this occurred at Bal Tabarin). 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 apparently provided a fake birth certificate, procured by her father - with the name Lucy Ann Collier) and she remained there until 1940.In 1941, she signed with Columbia Pictures, where, starting with Time Out for Rhythm, she starred in 11 B movie musicals from 1941 to 1945. In July 1945, with World War II still raging in the Pacific, she posed in a bathing suit as a Yank magazine pin-up girl. She ended her contract in 1946 with one A film, The Thrill of Brazil. The ad in Life magazine featured Millers leg in a large, red, bow-tied stocking as the T in Thrill. She finally hit her mark in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals such as Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949) and Kiss Me Kate (1953).Miller was famed for her speed in tap dance. 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 waxed and too slick for regular tap shoes, she had to dance in shoes with rubber treads on the sole. 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.Her film career effectively ended in 1956 as the studio system lost steam to television, but she remained active in the theater and on television. She starred on Broadway in the musical Mame in 1969, in which she wowed the audience in a tap number created just for her. In 1979 she astounded audiences in the Broadway show Sugar Babies with fellow MGM veteran Mickey Rooney, which toured the United States extensively after its Broadway run. In 1983, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. She appeared in a special 1982 episode of The Love Boat, joined by fellow showbiz legends Ethel Merman, Carol Channing, Della Reese, Van Johnson and Cab Calloway in a storyline that cast them as older relatives of the shows regular characters. Her last stage performance was a 1998 production of Stephen Sondheims Follies, in which she played hardboiled Carlotta Campion and received rave reviews for her rendition of the song Im Still Here.For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Miller has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6914 Hollywood Blvd. In 1998, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her. To honor Millers contribution to dance, the Smithsonian Institution displays her favorite pair of tap shoes, which she playfully nicknamed Moe and Joe.
Bubbles Cassidy
Movie 1952
Vivian (uncredited)
Movie 1938
Pepe
Movie 1940
Kitty Brown
Movie 1941
Self
Movie 2003
Beverly Ross
Movie 1943
Doris Patterson
Movie 1956
Lisa Bellmount
Movie 1953
Joyce Campbell
Movie 1951
Self
Movie 1941
Terry Baxter
Movie 1944
Betty
Movie 1937
Julie Carver
Movie 1944
Julie Shelton
Movie 1940
Violet McMaster
Movie 1938
Billie
Movie 1938
Miss Lucky Vista
Movie 1950
Linda Lorens
Movie 1946
Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Eve Porter
Movie 1945
Self
Movie 2005
Movie 2003
Ann Miller
Movie 1937
Self
Movie 2003
Movie 1944
Self
Movie 2003
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2002
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
Movie 1994
Self
Movie 1993
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2000
Eadie Allen / Edithea Alden
Movie 1945
Winnie Clark
Movie 1944
Mona
Movie 1971
Dancer (uncredited)
Movie 1936
Vicki Marlow
Movie 1942
Self - Actor (voice)
Movie 2004
Self
Movie 2003
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 2002
Movie 1941
Ann (segment "Sugar Babies")
Movie 2003
Movie 1985
Self
Movie 1949
Self
Movie 1995
Self
Movie 2000
Self
Movie 1982
Self
Movie 2021
Self
Movie 2009
Tv 1996
Self
Tv 1948
Self
Tv
Self - Dancer
Tv 1964
Self
Tv 1967
Self
Tv 1956
Self - Performer
Tv 1956
Self - Singer / Dancer
Tv 1964
Connie Carruthers
Tv 1977
Self - Guest
Tv 1968
Self
Tv 1961
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
