I had forgotten she was in Stage Door... ❤

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@@gpomeroy Oh man! Hopefully you can get them uploaded but I'm loving the parts that are up already. Thanks again.

@@gpomeroy part 2 is still missing

Because she came across as a snob to a lot of people. In many circles she wasn't well liked.

Ann Miller didn't have that something extra. That personality that grabs the audience. She without a doubt could dance, but, she wasn't charming, and overly likeable. Eleanor Powell who was the queen of tap in the 30's was very likeable, and the American audiences loved to watch her dance. She added some athleticism to her routines and she was fun to watch. Miss Miller was a marvelous dancer, but didn't have the personally and charm to win over the American audience.

@@terrysmith8749 I think you are very wrong, if you had watched any of her documentaries, she was said to be very likebale indeed. The only reason why she did not get the big roles were the old white directors and other men in charge wanted a bit of her but never could get it. They made sure she stayed as the co-star

@@terrysmith8749 Ann said she tried to stay away from studio politics, but she could not help getting involved, especially after Mayer attempted suicide when she rejected him. She was a kid under her mom's thumb, worked hard, loved clothes and parties and knew nothing about the moguls' machinations. She suspected her agency, William Morris, did not push hard enough for her stardom b/c it also handled Eleanor Powell; as a result, Ann was constantly hired as box office insurance in other folks' pictures, instead of being built up as a personality. At Radio, Columbia and MGM she was valued as a dancer who could electrify a routine film for a few minutes; but she did not choreograph her dances and her gifts as a singer and comedienne were not developed. That said, Ann was well paid and was too preoccupied with her love life to insist on higher billing. By the time she began to object to being underused, Esther Williams had become Metro's musical queen- another performer with more inner steel- and then the genre ran out of steam. Miller could have diversified in the late 1950s like Cyd Charisse or Doris Day, but she was too tired or bored by the business. She admits in her memoirs that from her mid-20s she was looking for a rich guy to marry. You cannot imagine Ginger or Barbara Stanwyck or Bette Davis making that a priority. They fought like tigresses for recognition. Ann did her job, often brilliantly, then went off to a night club.

@@terrysmith8749 You are mixing her up with Cyd Charisse, who played the 'I'm a ballerina' card too often. Ann was a down-to-earth hoofer who thought ballet pretentious and dull. She spoofed earnest young ballet students in 'You Can't Take It With You'.

Bigger than Ginger, never in her best day. Ms Miller comes across kinda snobby. I will give her credit for her dancing ability. She was very good. But, she tells stories about other celebrities that are incorrect. She acts like a see all, know all. She told stories about JUDY that were totally screwed up. Miss Miller would embellish stories about famous celebrities just so people would think that she was running in their circles. Fact not Fiction.

Did Ann Miller ever get her name above the title? She was a marvelous dancer, i'll give her that much. But, she always came across to me as a bit of a snob.

Ginger was also a great dancer. Plus an Academy award winning actress.

@@terrysmith8749 No, Ann never had a movie designed to showcase her, although she was an accomplished comedienne and singer- not quite in Ginger's class as a triple threat but more than worth a buildup. For almost 20 years Ann gave other folks' vehicles a push. Her neglect was a grievous oversight by a system that generally maxed out talent; but Ann was very young, and later was preoccupied with her tumultuous private life instead of pushing for recognition. She was a hard worker in rehearsal and on the set, but lacked the 24/7 dedication and insight into her abilities that drove Davis, Crawford, Stanwyck, Hepburn. That was true of most of the leading women hoofers. Their work schedules left them maybe too tired and blinkered to be more than cabs for hire. Eleanor Powell is the exception, but she was a perfectionist who only made one picture a year.

@@terrysmith8749 you keep saying she came across as snobby. I’ve never once felt that.

not sure 90's?

It was in the 90's , still working on getting the Pt 3 & 4 loaded

We were not there so we do not know

Universal got Deanna, and what a coup that was. In the late 30s she was keeping it afloat.

Ann began so young that she outlived most of her contemporaries. They were not around to dispute the yarns she told on talk shows. Hollywood is the fabulist's natural habitat, and Ann might have been repeating garbled legends rather than inventing maliciously. She was a sunny, somewhat gullible gal who lived for the moment; she had no regrets about her past- no Norma Desmond, she- and had a flourishing second career to occupy her, so any misspeaking is unlikely to have been deliberate.