Authorized Pictorial History Hardcover

Dust jacket notes: "It's easy to look like the girl next door. Ann Miller doesn't. In a career spanning more than four decades, from George White's Scandals of 1939 to the bawdy Sugar Babies of 1980, Ann Miller has been a 'Star,' complete with entourage, elegant clothes, stylish jewelry, and every strand of ebony hair in place. Anything else would be alien to the vibrant ageless 'Queen of Taps.' Now the enduring career of Ms. Miller comes to life with a cast of characters reading like a WHO'S WHO of Hollywood: in the movies' golden age of the '30s tapping with Ginger Rogers in Stage Door; through the war-torn '40s introducing Frank Sinatra in Reveille with Beverly and giving Gene Autry his first screen kiss; in the strident '50s reaching her movie zenith in Kiss Me Kate supported by Tommy Rall, Bobby Van, and a young Bob Fosse; branching into television in the '60s on 'Hollywood Palace' and making a triumphant return to Broadway in Mame; and, in the '70s on television's 'Love, American Style' and 'Dames at Sea' with Ann-Margret. More than a film biography, TOPS IN TAPS is a pictorial re-creation of a movie era never to be reclaimed - an age of innocence and naivete where boy got girl and audiences left theaters smiling. The book is profusely illustrated with the original ads, scene stills, and publicity photographs from all of Ann Miller's movies. Many of the photographs have never before been published."