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Marilyn Miller est une Actrice Américaine née le 1 septembre 1898 à Indiana (Etats-Unis)

Marilyn Miller

Marilyn Miller
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Nom de naissance Mary Ellen Reynolds
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 1 septembre 1898 à Indiana (Etats-Unis)
Mort 7 avril 1936 (à 37 ans) à New York (Etats-Unis)

Marilyn Miller (September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, but it was the combination of these talents that endeared her to audiences. On stage she usually played rags-to-riches Cinderella characters who lived happily ever after. Miller's enormous popularity and famed image were in distinct contrast to her personal life, which was marred by disappointment, tragedy, frequent illness, and ultimately her sudden death due to complications of nasal surgery at age 37.

Biographie

Engagements and marriages

Miller was married to:


Frank Carter, an actor and acrobatic dancer, whom she married on 24 May 1919 at the Church of the Ascension in New York City. He was killed in a car accident in Cumberland, Maryland, on 9 May 1920. Carter was portrayed by Gordon MacRae in the Marilyn Miller biopic Look for the Silver Lining.
Jack Pickford, an actor and the brother of film star Mary Pickford; previously married to the popular movie actress Olive Thomas, he was a drug and alcohol abuser. They were married in 1922, separated in 1926, and divorced in Versailles, France, in November 1927. Miller had attempted to secure a divorce in the Paris courts in the spring of 1927, but her published comments about how easy it would be to end her marriage in France "stirred the ire of the Paris Tribunal with the result that the court would take no action on Miss Miller's petition". The actress filed for divorce the following July in the nearby city of Versailles, whose tribunal eventually ended the marriage.
Chester Lee O'Brien, a chorus dancer, whom she married on 4 October 1934, in Harrison, New York. Several years older than her groom, Miller reportedly spent more than $56,000 on O'Brien during their brief time together. O'Brien, who later was known professionally as Chet O'Brien, went on to become a stage manager for such Broadway productions as Brigadoon and Finian's Rainbow. He also was the stage manager and an actor on Sesame Street from the premier of the show in 1969 until 1992.
In 1930, Miller was briefly engaged to the actor Michael Farmer, who later became a husband of Gloria Swanson. In 1932, she announced her intention to marry the movie actor Don Alvarado, but the wedding did not take place.


Illnesses, alcoholism, and death

Miller had a long history of sinus infections, and her health was compromised by an increasing dependency on alcohol. According to reports shortly before her death, she entered a New York hospital in early March 1936 in order to recover from a nervous breakdown. Three weeks after she entered the hospital, however, she developed a toxic condition and died from complications following surgery on her nasal passages. She was 37. She died in New York City on the morning of April 7, 1936 and was given a funeral at Saint Bartholomew Church on Park Avenue which drew 2,500 people, including former mayor Jimmy Walker, Beatrice Lillie, and Billie Burke.

The procession led to Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, where Miller was buried alongside her first husband, Frank Carter, in a mausoleum she had constructed to house his remains.


Name
Miller's last name was taken from her step-father, Oscar Caro Miller, while her first name was a combination/adaptation of her birth name, Mary, and her mother's middle name, Lynn. Initially calling herself Marilynn, she would drop one of the n's, at the urging of Florenz Ziegfeld.

Census records reveal perhaps a half a dozen "Marilyns" in the United States in 1900; by the 1930s, following Miller's stardom, it was the 16th most common first name among American females.

In the late 1940s, Norma Jeane Baker (née Mortenson) changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, at the urging of Ben Lyon, a one-time actor turned casting director at 20th Century Fox, who said she reminded him of Marilyn Miller. (Lyon had played Miller's love interest in "Her Majesty Love.")

Marilyn Monroe would 'become' Marilyn Miller herself when she married the playwright Arthur Miller in 1956.

Ses meilleurs films

Sally (1930)
(Actrice)

Le plus souvent avec

Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Marilyn Miller (4 films)

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Actrice

Mardi gras
Mardi gras (1941)
, 1h38
Réalisé par Herbert Wilcox
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie musicale, Musical
Thèmes La musique, Théâtre, Musique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre, Adaptation d'une comédie musicale
Acteurs Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Marilyn Miller, Grace Hartman
Note54% 2.7154452.7154452.7154452.7154452.715445
Sunny O'Sullivan, vedette d'une spectacle de cirque, tombe amoureuse de Larry Warren, issu d'une riche famille qui s'oppose à cette union...
Sally
Sally (1930)
, 1h43
Réalisé par John Francis Dillon
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Musical
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre, Adaptation d'une comédie musicale
Acteurs Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown, Ford Sterling, Pert Kelton, T. Roy Barnes
Rôle Sally
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Sally (Marilyn Miller) plays the part of an orphan who had been abandoned as a baby at the Bowling Green telephone exchange. While growing up in an orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. In an attempt to save money enough to become a dancer, Sally began working at odd jobs. While working as a waitress, a man named Blair (Alexander Gray) begins coming to her work regularly to see her. They both soon fall for each other.
Sunny
Sunny (1930)
, 1h18
Réalisé par William A. Seiter
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Musical, Romance
Thèmes Musique
Acteurs Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney, O. P. Heggie, Barbara Bedford, Clyde Wilfred Cook
Rôle Sunny Peters
Note53% 2.6700552.6700552.6700552.6700552.670055
Marylin Miller plays the part of an American circus performer, doing her act in a British circus, who is engaged to a man she does not love. A former boyfriend, played by Lawrence Gray, stops by to see her before taking boat back to the United States. Miller realizing that she loves Gray, decides to run away. She embarks on the same boat that Lawrence takes. Her father, who realizes what his daughter has done, reaches the boat just as it is about to leave and manages to board it. While on board, Gray becomes engaged to be married to a wealthy socialite (Barbara Bedford). Miller learns that she will not be allowed to disembark in the United States without a passport. In order to land, Miller marries an American friend, intending to divorce him as soon as she is safely inside the United States. After arrive in the states, Miller tells Gray about her love for him. Bedford overhears them and tells Gray that she will announce their engagement at a party that very night. Disappointed, Miller decides to return to England, but Gray proposes to her just as she is about to leave.