Ann Miller

Data di nascita
12 aprile 1923 · Chireno, Texas, Stati Uniti
Data di morte
22 gennaio 2004 · Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti (cancro al polmone)
Nome alla nascita
Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier
Soprannome
- Annie
Altezza
1,70 m

On an interview on Turner Classic Movies, she told a story about how each time she needed to dress for a dance on screen, the tops of her stockings needed to be sewn to the costume she was wearing. This was a tedious process and needed to be repeated each time there was a run, etc. One day, she suggested to the man supplying the stockings that he add a top to the stockings so they could be worn as one piece... and that's how pantyhose was born.
At the end of her Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract, she flew overseas to Morocco to entertain on the Timex TV Hour for Bob Hope. She sang and danced "Too Darn Hot" in 120-degree heat, entertaining 5000 soldiers.
In her tap shoes, she claimed to be able to dance at 500 taps per minute. Her tap shoes were called Moe and Joe and were exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Discovered by Lucille Ball while doing a show at a nightclub in San Francisco, California.
Refusing to do any movies for years because she disliked nudity and sex, she finally relented and returned to films after nearly four decades with David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001), which contained nudity and explicit sex.

[In 1979 interview] 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.
[Fred Astaire] was a perfectionist. At rehearsal when you thought you had got it perfect he would say, "Go on, Annie, just one more time!" What I wouldn't give to do it just one more time.
At MGM, I always played the second feminine lead. I was never the star in films. I was the brassy, good-hearted showgirl. I never really had my big moment on the screen. Broadway gave me the stardom that my soul kind of yearned for.
She (Lucille Ball) loved him (Desi Arnaz) with all her heart, he was a part of her, that always stayed with her.