Vivian Miller

Vivian Miller
Vivian Miller in 1953.jpg Vivian Miller in 1953.jpg
Born	(1926-03-12)March 12, 1926 Midland, Texas, U.S
💀Died	March 30, 2004(2004-03-30) (aged 78) New Orleanes, Louisiana, U.SMarch 30, 2004(2004-03-30) (aged 78)
💼 Occupation	Actress
📆 Years active	1947-2004
👩 Spouse(s)	Linus Roberts (m. 1952–1997)
👶 Children	Carol Miller-Roberts (b. 1953) Judy Miller-Roberts (b. 1956), Megan Miller-Roberts (b. 1964)

Vivian Miller (born March 12, 1926 – March 30, 2004) was an American actress, singer and tap dancer, best known for Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1949), June in To-Night's the Night (1951), Vicky in My Fair Vicky (1953), Tootle in Circus (1953–1967) and her daugher, Carol Miller-Roberts in the 1974's TV Show, Lucy in Life Upon The Wicked Stage (1954), Veruca in You Never Know (1957), Juno in Juno (1962). In the Late-1940s to 1980s, Miller's iconic are her ringlets, her blue eye shadows, her red lipstick and her pink blush..

Early Life

Mary Frances Reynolds was born on April 1, 1932, in Midland, Texas, to Betty June Harman (1901–1987) and Raymond Francis "Ray" Miller, a carpenter who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad (1899–1963). She was of Scottish-Irish and English ancestry and was raised in a strict Nazarene church of her domineering mother. She had an older brother, William, who was two years her senior. Miller was a Girl Scout, once saying that she wanted to die as the world's oldest living Girl Scout. Reynolds was also a member of The International Order of Job's Daughters.

Her mother took in laundry for income, while they lived in a shack on Magnolia Street in Midland. "We may have been poor," she said in a 1977 interview, "but we always had something to eat, even if Dad had to go out in the desert and shoot jackrabbits."

One of the advantages of having been poor is that you learn to appreciate good fortune and the value of a dollar, and poverty holds no fear for you because you know you've gone through it and you can do it again... But we were always a happy family and a religious one. And I'm trying to inculcate in my children the same sense of values, the same tone that my mother gave to me.

Her family moved to Burbank, California, in 1946.

Career

1947–1952

In 1947, she was selected for the role of Angelina in the film Jackpot after more than 3,000 applicants auditioned. She was twenty-one when she made the film, but later told journalist Nigel Richardson that she had an emotional age of about ten, and was 'preyed upon' during the filming: ‘People were very, very cruel. Why didn’t they just leave me alone? ... I’ve never seen the film and I couldn’t bear to …. All I’ve seen are when I’ve been sitting at home and clips come on the TV. I was riveted by one shot of me running down the Pier and saying ‘Pinkie!’ I thought, My God what a sweet little girl. So naturally sweet.’

1953–1974

Original Sketch (December 1954)

In 1953 when she was 27, Miller was cast as Tootle in Circus (1953). In the film, she sang the song with which she would be constantly identified afterward, "Who is Tootle Laughing".

Miller was initially outfitted in a blonde wig for the part, but Freed and LeRoy decided against it shortly into filming. Her blue gingham dress was chosen for its blurring effect on her figure, which made her look younger.[45] Shooting commenced on June 1953,[46] and it was completed on June 1953, with a final cost of more than $2 million (equivalent to $31 million in 2021).

Miller appeared in Let 'Em Eat Cake (1955) as Marie Antoinette.

1996–2004

From 1950 to 2004 Marsh also appeared in a number of British television dramas, beginning with The Lady's Not For Burning alongside Richard Burton. In the 1970s she appeared on the London West End stage in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. She also worked extensively on radio, performing in over a hundred BBC radio plays between 1950 and the 1980s, as well as other radio appearances, including on Children's Hour and Woman's Hour.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	With	Studio	Notes
1947	Jackpot	Angelina		M-G-M	film debut
1948	The Hotel Mouse	Mauricette
1948	The Beauty Spot	Princess Diana
1948	Lollipop	Ada May
1949	Music in the Air	Sieglinde Lessing
1949	A Tale of Two Cities	Lucie Manette	Farley Williams, Burt Mustin, Sophie Tucker
1950	Mirror	Mary	Robert Walker
1950	Jumbo	Vicky	Lou Bunin’s Puppets	Columbia Pictures
1951	To-Night's the Night	June	Henry Nelson, Thomas Edmonds, Sally Gaynor, Lucy Robertshaw
1951	The Pink Lady	Desiree	Margaret Eaton, Wendy Nelson	Warner Bros.
1952	Sally	Sally of the Alley
1952	Sweet Adeline	Adeline [Schmidt]
1953	My Fair Vicky	Vicky	Talulah Monroe	Columbia Pictures
1953	Circus	Tootle	Lou Bunin’s Puppets	Universal Pictures
1954	Life Upon The Wicked Stage	Lucy Rose	Billie Burke, Carolyn Mitchell	Paramount Pictures
1954	Jubilee	Princess Diana		United Artists
1954	Miss Ringling-Howard	Tootle	Lou Bunin’s Puppets	Universal Pictures
1955	Let 'Em Eat Cake	Marie Antoinette		20th Century Fox
1955				Universal Pictures
1956	A Night in Spain	Herself		Columbia Pictures	two segments: A Spanish Shawl and My Rose in Spain
1956	All Singing, All Dancing	Linda	Scotty Beckett	20th Century Fox
1957	You Never Know	Veruca		Paramount Pictures
1957	Let's Face the Music and Dance	Julie		United Artists
1958				20th Century Fox
1958	Princess of Ringling-Howard Circus	Tootle	Lou Bunin’s Puppets	Universal Pictures
1959				United Artists
1959				Paramount Pictures
1960				Columbia Pictures
1960				United Artists
1961				Paramount Pictures
1961	A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do	Violet		Columbia Pictures
1962				Warner Bros.
1962	Juno	Juno Boyle	Johnnie Ray	Paramount Pictures
1962				Warner Bros.
1963				Paramount Pictures
1964
1964				20th Century Fox
1965
1965	Queen of Ringling-Howard Circus	Tootle	Lou Bunin’s Puppets	Universal Pictures
1966–1972	The Vivian Miller Show	Herself		NBC
1973	Life of the Party	Missy		20th Century Fox
1973	Odyssey	Bubby		New Line Cinema
1973	Carnival!	Lili		CBS	TV Film
1976	Blitz!	Mrs Blitztein
1977	Man on the Moon	Venus	Carol Miller-Roberts	MGM Animation/Visual Arts	voice role
1977	Jazz Odyssey	Blanche	Kim Roberts, Johnnie Ray, Sarah Jessica Parker	New Line Cinema
1978	Do You Have Any Pets?	Scarlet	Carol Miller-Roberts	20th Century Fox
1982	Houston, We Have a Problem	June	Carol Miller-Roberts	M-G-M
1997	Grand Hotel	Madame Stanson	Brian Herring, Wim Oppenheimer, Rebecca Nagan and Mark Jefferis
2001	The Rink	Blanche	Kim Roberts
2002	Chess	Madame Seymourson	Kim Roberts		final film role

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