![]() ![]() And in 1937, RKO asked her to sign on as a contract player, but only if she could prove she was 18. It was there she was discovered by Lucille Ball and talent scoutcomic Benny Rubin. She was considered a child dance prodigy.Īt the age of 13 Ann had been hired as a dancer in the Black Cat Club in San Francisco (she had told them she was 18). She took up dancing to exercise her legs to help her rickets. Miller’s father insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was often called Annie. Miller’s maternal grandmother was Cherokee. Ann Miller was born Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier on Apin Chireno, Texas, the daughter of Clara Emma (Birdwell) and John Alfred Collier, a criminal lawyer who represented the Barrow Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and Baby Face Nelson, among others.
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