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She jumped, jived and wailed in the s and '40s as a member of the Lindy Hoppers, the famous dancers who helped popularize swing dancing. She was Born in Harlem, Miller grew up near the famous Savoy Ballroom. She was 12 when legendary dancer Twist Mouth George saw her and asked her to dance with him inside the Savoy.

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I was too young to go inside the Savoy. I wasn't supposed to be there. Just three years later, Miller was cherry-picked by dancer Herbert "Whitey" Ford to join his Lindy Hoppers, whose high-flying dance moves were named after aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was the last surviving original member of the all-black dance troupe. Miller ended up touring Europe with the group in And that led to appearances in — among other things — the Marx Brothers movies "Hellzapoppin" and "A Day at the Races.

Miller and the other Lindy Hoppers took aerial dancing to new, creative heights with a combination of hopping, somersaulting and other gravity-defying moves. To get that good, Miller and the other dancers practiced endlessly. We had all kinds of fractures. I'm just healing now, and it's 70 years later. Miller later worked as a choreographer, comedian, actor, author and a performer at various nightclubs, opening for big names such as Redd Foxx and Sammy Davis Jr.

She did a little of everything: dancing, singing, comedy. Later, she appeared in an episode of Foxx's "Sanford and Son," where she delivered the line, "Coffee, tea or me.