Out with the old...

...with Mae West!

...Anita Ekberg!

...Betty Grable!

...Ms Scarlet Clara Bow!

...and Ann Miller!

Happier New Year, dear reader!

Xmas with the Stars

Jane Greer


Ann Miller


Sophia Loren


Cyd Charisse


Rita Hayworth


Shirley Jones pretends to touch a Christmas tree made of Joseff jewellery


Bette Davis

Miller, liked

Johnnie Lucille Collier, better known as Ann Miller (12th April 1923 – 22nd January 2004)

Facts about Ann Miller:

• She was "discovered" by Lucille Ball and talent scout/comic Benny Rubin, aged just 13.
• As a child she had rickets, and dancing was seen as good therapy for the condition.
• Miss Miller is credited with popularising the wearing of tights (pantyhose).
• It was claimed that she could tap 500 times per minute, but the sound was in fact looped in later.
• Her first (credited) screen role was in New Faces of 1937, and her last was in the David Lynch movie Mulholland Drive in 2001.

Read our previous entry for Miss Miller

Brassy, good-hearted showgirl

"I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers."

"I was never the star in films, I was the brassy, good-hearted showgirl. I never really had my big moment on the screen."

"It's like I marry everything I buy. I can't give it away. I had shingles once after I did 'Hello, Dolly!' and I gave away $250,000 of low-necked dresses. I cried when I saw them all leaving the house."

"I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn`t think you have a brain in your head."

Ann Miller (12th April 1923 – 22nd January 2004)

[A musical tribute to Miss Miller is at Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle]