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She appeared, uncredited, in the movie 'The Good Fairy' the following year and 'The Devil on Horseback' in 1936, the same year in which she was hired as a dancer in the "Club Bal Tabarin" in San Francisco, having told them she was 18. She lived there until she was nine, when her mother left her philandering father and moved with Ann to Los Angeles, California. 'Eve Knew Her Apples' in 1945 was a musical remake of 'It Happened One Night' in which Ann sang four numbers. "Ann Miller wrote two autobiographies, "Miller's High Life" in 1974 and 1990's "Tapping the Force" in which she described her obsession with the occult.She became in a short time of of the most popular and profitable stars in Columbia's stable, making a series of low budget wartime morale boosting movies, at first in secondary roles, as in 'Go West, Young Lady' in 1941 but then becoming one of the headline stars. The show will be on an episode of Snapped on Oxygen.

View the profiles of people named Ann Miller. In 2001 to the surprise of her fans she went to work with one of the screen's most controversial directors, David Lynch, with a double role in his movie, 'Mulholland Drive'.Ann then completed a highly successful two year stint on Broadway in producer George White's musical 'Scandals of 1939'. Both are equally-correct names for Russian women, however. It was a fortuitous move for Ann because she was seen there by Lucille Ball who recommended her to her studio, RKO. Either way, the experimental drug cures Anna and she arrives to the final Aurora's destination at Lake Baikal, together with what's left of the Aurora crew.

She became known as a brilliant dancer, a child prodigy, whose early inspiration was Eleanor Powell, "the fastest tap dancer in the world."

Her last movie appearance was another non-musical role in 'The Great American Pastime' in 1956.At the end of her MGM contract in 1957 Ann went to Morocco to appear with Bob Hope entertaining the troops in 120 degree heat and singing, appropriately "Too Darn Hot. Ann was flying high and she went on to do 'On the Town' in 1949, with Sinatra and Gene Kelly, and 'Kiss Me Kate' in 1953 with Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel, each time playing important second feminine leads, but never the main feminine role.

His plans came unstuck when Ann decided to get married to her boyfriend, steel millionaire Reese Milner, and announced her retirement from movie making. The film was a great success and it was the start of the big time for Ann.

Ann Miller was born Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier on April 12, 1923 in Chireno, Texas.

Her parents split up when Ann was nine and she and her mother moved to California.Ann continued to take dancing lessons and began dancing professionally at the age of 11, in 1934, when she appeared as an extra in the movie 'Anne of Green Gables'. As her movie career wound down in the 1950's she began a new career dancing in nightclubs and in 1979 she was in the Broadway smash hits 'Mame' and 'Sugar Babies' She also appeared on a number of television series including 'Love Boat' and she made a cult TV commercial for Great American Soup.After this Ann's film career dried up as the MGM style of extravagant musicals went out of fashion and television began to challenge the dominance of cinema, but Ann continued to work hard replacing movies with a new nightclub dancing act and appearing on stage and on television. In 'Reveille with Beverly in 1943, she co-starred with Frank Sinatra, together with Duke Ellington and Count Basie and then with Louis Armstrong and Jo Stafford in 'Jam Session' the following year.

Her last musical was a dire Technicolor remake of the 1939 film 'The Women', named 'The Opposite Sex' in 1956, in which Ann was not required to dance a step.
This marriage also ended in divorce within a year.

Her name is pronounced as "Anya" in the Russian dub, which is the diminutive of "Anna" in her native language.

In the mid 1940's she is reputed to have had an affair with the already married head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer which ended when she refused to marry him.When she was three she began dancing lessons to strengthen and straighten her legs after an attack of rickets.

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When she was well into her 60's she had a major hit alongside Mickey Rooney with 'Sugar Babies' on Broadway and on tour for nine years. She had found her vocation. She performed a romantic dance with Fred Astaire and a fast solo tap number called "Shakin' the Blues Away." Studio publicity claimed she could do 500 taps per minute.