Ann Miller

Ann Miller Johnnie Lucille Collier actually ( born April 12, 1923 in Houston, Texas, † 22 January 2004 in Los Angeles ) was an American actress and dancer.

Career

The Texan Ann Miller has already been drilled by her ambitious mother early career in show business. They first took tap dance lessons and made it at 17, to get a long-term contract in Hollywood. She was first employed at Columbia, where they in countless B- movies and inexpensively produced musicals such as What's Buzzin ' Cousins ​​? or She Knew Her Apples occurred. From the studio often used as a second heroine beside Jinx Falkenburg, Miller was set on the presentation rather leichtlebiger Revue girl with a heart of gold. Your talents as a dancer, however, came only with the change to MGM in 1946 to fully develop. MGM had just started the famous Golden Age of musicals under the aegis of Arthur Freed, Stanley Donen and Vincente Minnelli. Studio boss Louis B. Mayer was also personally impressed by Miller and offered her several times to marry her. She declined the requests from so authentic and friendly that Mayer took her decision never evil or resented. In the aftermath Ann Miller starred in films such as The Kissing Bandit, On the Town and Texas Carnival. In the produced with much effort and in 3 -D adaptation of the Broadway classic Kiss me, Kate Miller as Bianca practically stole the movie from Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel. Overall, however, the actress lacked the dramatic talent to play lead roles and with the decline of the musical around the middle of the decade, she ended her film career in 1956.

In the aftermath Ann Miller was an enormously whose trademark was teased hairstyle that did not fall even in the wildest dance routines from the socket to see a successful solo dancer in exclusive nightclubs and on television. In 1969 she took over from Angela Lansbury starred in Mame, and was last seen in 1979 in the revue Sugar Babies. In 1993 she gave Tim Allen aka " Tim Taylor " in the television series "Home Improvement" - "Listen, Home Improvement " ( 2.Staffel, Episode 16 ) as Mrs. Keeney as mobile as amusing dance classes. David Lynch could then talk to a supporting role in the film Mulholland Drive.

She was buried in the cemetery "Holy Cross Cemetery " in Culver City, California.

Filmography (selection)