Marilyn Miller

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Born Mary Ellen Reynolds (September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the twentieth century's most popular Broadway musical stars.

She was an excellent tap dancer, guitarist, and actress, and it was the marriage of these talents that attracted her followers.

She played rags-to-riches Cinderella characters on stage, and then died happily ever after.

Her remarkable success and famed image were in stark contrast to her personal life, which was marred by disappointment, tragedy, frequent sickness, and eventually death from complications of nasal surgery at age 37.

Early life

Marilyn Miller was born in Evansville, Indiana, as the youngest daughter of Edwin D. Reynolds, a telephone lineman, and his first wife, Ada Lynn Thompson. The tiny, delicately adorned blonde debuted at Lakeside Park in Dayton, Ohio, as a member of her family's vaudeville troupe, The Columbian Trio. Since her mother and her father returned to the routine, the Five Columbians were renamed the Five Columbians. The five women worked in Findlay, Ohio, for ten years and then moved to skirt the child labor authorities before Lee Shubert discovered Miller at the Lotus Club in London in 1914.

Personal life

Miller was married to:

Miller briefly married Michael Farmer, who later became Gloria Swanson's husband. She announced in 1932 that she wanted to marry Don Alvarado, but the wedding did not take place.

Miller had a long history of sinus infections, and her immune system was harmed by an increasing dependence on alcohol. According to news shortly before her death, she began working in a New York hospital in early March 1936 to recover from a nervous breakdown. Following surgery on her nasal passages at age 37 in New York City on the morning of April 7, 1936, she developed a chronic condition and died from respiratory problems three weeks later.

Ex Mayor Jimmy Walker, Beatrice Lillie, and Billie Burke attended Miller's funeral at Saint Bartholomew Church on Park Avenue, which attracted 2,500 people, including former mayor Jimmy Walker, Billie Burke and Billie Burke. Miller's first husband, Frank Carter, was buried in a mausoleum she had built to house his remains in the Bronx, where the parade led to Woodlawn Cemetery.

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Career

In 1914 and 1915 editions of The Passing Show, a Broadway revue at the Winter Garden Theatre, as well as in The Show of Wonders (1916) and Fancy Free (1918). Miller appeared in New York City for the Shuberts. Florenz Ziegfeld, who made her a star after she appeared in his Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 in Manhattan at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street, with music by Irving Berlin. In a number titled "Mine Was a Marriage of Convenience," she shared bill with Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, and W. C. Fields.

Miller debuted in the 1919 Follies, performing on Berlin's "Mandy" and reportedly becoming Ziegfeld's mistress, but this was never proved. She rose to fame in the Ziegfeld film Sally (1920) with music by Jerome Kern, particularly for her appearance of Kern's "Look for the Silver Lining." The musical, which revolves around a dishwasher who joins the Follies and marries a millionaire, had 570 performances at the New Amsterdam. Dorothy Parker, a semi-obscure, recalled her appearance in verse in 1921:

Miller, after a rift with Ziegfeld, joined Charles Dillingham and appeared as Peter Pan in a 1924 Broadway revival, then as a circus queen in Sunny (1925), with music by Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. It was a box-office smash that included the popular "Who?" "She was voted the highest-paid celebrity on Broadway." She appeared in George Gershwin's hit musical Rosalie (1928), then in Smiles (1930) with Fred Astaire, one of Ziegfeld's rare box-office failures.

Miller's film career was short-lived and less lucrative than her stage work. Sally (1929), Sunny (1930), and Her Majesty, Love (1931), with W. C. Fields, she made only three films: versions of Sally (1929), Sunny (1930), and Her Majesty, Love (1931). As Thousands Cheer, the pioneering 1933-1934 Irving Berlin/Moss Hart musical As Thousands Cheer, in which she appeared in the production number "Easter Parade," was her last Broadway performance, marking a big comeback.

Miller's appearance in As Thousands Cheer was her last professional outing. She quit the show after her boyfriend and future husband Chester O'Brien, the company's second assistant stage manager, was fired for encouraging the Woolworth department store's heir Jimmy Donahue to sneak onstage during a scene in which she was impersonating his cousin, Barbara Hutton. Irving Berlin was inspired by this incident, which gave him the opportunity to direct the songs in lieu of writing them.

Miller was described as in retirement at the time of her death.

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