![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: April 12, 1923 in Houston, TX Death: January 22, 2004 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:In the latter stages of her long career, musical comedy star "Ann Miller" spent much of her time thanking her colleagues for not revealing a secret concerning her early days in Hollywood. According to Miller, she was but 14 years old when she began receiving sizeable screen roles in such RKO films as "New Faces of 1937" (1937), "Having Wonderful Time" (1938), and "Room Service" (1938), thus it was illegal for her to appear on the set without a guardian or tutor. Perhaps the reason that her co-stars conspired to keep her age a secret was because she was doing so; Miller was in fact 18 when she signed her RKO contract. Not that any of this bears the slightest relevance to Ms. Miller's dazzling terpsichorean talent (in one of her Columbia-starring vehicles, she set a world record for taps-per-minute) nor her stellar contributions to such MGM Technicolor musicals as "Easter Parade" (1948), "On the... Full Biography
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