New Faces of 1937
Miller, Ann
performer
Three Chocolateers
performer
Film
1937-07-01
RKO
This is Miller's film debut in a non-speaking role.
Signed by RKO at the age of fourteen (her father arranged for a phony birth certificate giving her age as eighteen), Miller enjoyed a brief but well-received appearance in "New Faces of 1937."
In covering the first showing Hollywood Variety noted "Ann Miller doing taps drew a salvo of applause at this screening."
New Herald Tribune critic Howard Barnes wrote: "The plot is all about the familiar difficulties of putting on a Broadway show and it is the audition for this that brings on the new personalities....The best of them to my mind are Ann Miller, a rather good tap dancer, and the Three Chocolateers, who strut exuberantly."
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts
Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990).
Strattemann, Klaus: Duke Ellington: Day by Day, Film by Film. Copenhagen: Jazz Media (1992).
Thomas, Tony: That's Dancing!. New York, Harry Abrams (1984).
Tap Dance America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html
Ann Miller (biography)
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tda
IHAS
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