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David Miller
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Director, Actor Born: November 28, 1909 in Paterson, NJ Death: April 14, 1992 in California Biography:In his landmark 1968 book The American Cinema, which detailed the "personal stamp" of several hundred movie directors, critic Andrew Sarris ended one such assessment with the query "Who is David Miller?" Indeed, if one were looking for an inkling of individuality in any of his Hollywood films, one would come to the conclusion that there was no director named "David Miller". Apparently his foremost talent was an easygoing temperament and an ability to get along with anyone he was working with. This is certainly the principal reason that Miller was hired to direct the contentious "Marx Brothers" in "Love Happy" (1949); while the film was unsucceesful, it resulted in a lifelong friendship between Miller and "Harpo Marx". Similarly, Miller practiced his invisible-man technique on such Hollywood heavyweights as "Joan Crawford" ("Sudden Fear" [1952]), "Doris Day" ("Midnight Lace" [1960]) and "Kirk... Full Biography
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