Ann Miller

WOmWAm Career Perspective
 
An archetypical bridge from the tame musicals of the 1940s to the Fetishistic Extravaganza of the 1950s, re-defining "Entertainment" with an energetic dancing style packed into shrunken costumes, making her a WOman-in-Motion to behold.  While her dance routines astonished, her non-dancing roles she revealed a more serious Feminine Threat -- The Vicious Virago of 2 Tickets, the Suburban Seductress of Great American Pastime, the Hell-Cat Fighter of Opposite Sex, et al... An Entertainer Icon...

Roles of Interest
 

Easter Parade
Here begins her remarkable run of  similar roles from 1948-1953, all in abbreviated costumes featuring over-the-top dance routines...

 Watch the Birdie

Has a walk-on where she overwhelms Red Skelton  with aggressive kissing... 

Two Tickets to Broadway

Remarkable FemmeViolence for the early 50s... 

Texas Carnival

Another Red Skelton vehicle where she tries to seduce him through provocative song  ("I want to put a man into a spasm") because she thinks he has money...
Lovely to Look At
Bubbles Cassidy
She ain't called "Bubbles" because she chews a lot of gum... 
Small Town Girl

Kiss Me Kate

 As "Lois Lane" she ain't tugging on Superman's cape, but she sure knows how to fly...

Hit the Deck

 Buy now her variety roles were becoming somewhat indistinguishable, with this being one of her last...
The Opposite Sex
More mature and matronly in this, but she does have a wicked catfight  with another Entertainer Matron, the improbably Zaftig Dolores Gray...

The Great  American Pastime

A divorcee-Sedcutress who forces a man to sit in a car with a dressing dummy's pointed-cone breasts sticking into his face...
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