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Ann Johnnie Lucille Collier Miller
1923 - 2004
Birth place
Houston, United State..
Death place
Los Angeles, United S..
Singer, dancer and actress Ann Miller hired as a dancer by San Francisco's Black Cat Club at 13, discovered by Lucille Ball and became a star in MGM Musicals 'Kiss me Kate' and 'On the Town'. Tarnished Angel 1938, The Kissing Bandit 1948 and The Opposite Sex 1956. Famed for the speed of her tap dancing, her stockings kept ripping so she had the studio sew them into one piece, so inventing pantyhose. Appeared in 1982 episode of 'The Love Boat', and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive in 2001. Cancer
Buried by stargirl on January 22, 2011
