MARILYN MILLER

Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds) was a stage actress and singer in the 1910s and 1930s. In the late 1910s, she appeared in The Ziegfeld Follies, and she became a top Ziegfeld star, and she also had a personal relationship with Ziegfeld, which caused them to part ways in 1922, when she signed with one of his competitors. She had several major hits, and she was called "Queen of Broadway" in the 1920s. She only appeared in three movies: Her Majesty, Love, Sunny, and Sally. Her signature song was "Look For the Silver Lining". She had a very volatile private life, with three husbands (one of whom was Jack Pickford, brother of Mary, who became a major drug addict). She became an alcoholic, and she passed away in 1936 at the age of 37, following complications from nasal surgery. In 1949, a Hollywood biography of her life was made, called "Look For the Silver Lining", and she was played by June Haver.