| Tap Dancer Ann Miller was born April 12, 1923 in | | | | history. |
| Chireno, a small town in Texas. Her father, John | | | | She signed a contract with RKO at age fourteen, |
| Collier, a criminal attorney who defended some | | | | being cast in such films as "Stage Door" (1937), "You |
| famous gangsters like Machine Gun Kelly and the | | | | Can't Take It With You" (1938), "Room Service" |
| Barrow Gang, wanted a son. She was born Johnnie | | | | (1938) and "Too Many Girls" (1940). She moved from |
| Lucille Collier, but later became known as Annie. | | | | RKO to Columbia Pictures, then to MGM, making her |
| In childhood, Annie had rickets, so she started tap | | | | most memorable film, "Easter Parade" (1948), with |
| dancing lessons to exercise her legs. At age nine, | | | | Fred Astaire. |
| Annie's parents divorced, and she moved to California | | | | The fifties, sixties, and seventies landed Ann Miller |
| with her mother where she took various jobs | | | | many theatre and television roles, and her Broadway |
| dancing to support them. At age thirteen, pretending | | | | hit in "Sugar Babies", in 1979, put her on Broadway |
| to be eighteen, Annie was hired as a dancer at the | | | | for eight years. At age 75, Ann starred in Stephen |
| "Black Cat Club" in San Francisco. While working there, | | | | Sondheim's "Follies", and three years later she was in |
| she was discovered by Lucille Ball, and the rest is | | | | "Mullholland Falls. |