Reveille with Beverly Miller, Ann performer Film 1943-02-04 Columbia Pictures Based on the true-life story of Jean Ruth, a wartime radio personality, the film tells the story of a radio-struck young girl named Beverly Ross (played by actress and tap dancer Ann Miller) who works at a local Denver radio station as a switchboard operator and manages to progress from that position to that of a substitute DJ when a clever bit of subterfuge helps her convince the early morning classical broadcaster that he is ill and in need of rest. Musical interludes featured featured four top-line dance bands-- Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Bob Crosby and Freddie Slack Orchestras. The finale, "Thumbs Up and "V For Victory" features Miller singing and dancing with a male chorus to music played by the Columbia studio orchestra. In every Ann Miller film there is at least one show-stopping tap dance routine. In "Reville" audiences had to wait until virtually the last scene when Beverly Ross makes her personal appearance at an army camp. Backed by a number of chorus boys in servicemen's uniforms, the stage adorned with a set of waving Allied flags, she sings and dances the patriotic morale booster, "Thumbs Up and V for Victory" as a rousing finale to the film. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Smith, Ernie: Selected List of Films and Kinescopes. In Jean and Marshall Stearns' Jazz Dance (1968). Strattemann, Klaus: Duke Ellington: Day by Day, Film by Film. Copenhagen: Jazz Media (1992). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Ann Miller (biography) loc.music.tdabio.131 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.830