Born on September 1, 1898, in Evansville, Indiana, Marilyn Reynolds grew up with her stepfather╒s name, Miller. Her parents and oldest sister formed a vaudeville act called ╥The Columbian Trio,╙ which Marilyn joined as ╥Mlle. Sugarplum╙ when she was four, making her stage debut in August 1903 in Dayton, Ohio. For ten years she toured the Middle West and even abroad in the family act, which ultimately became ╥The Five Columbians.╙ Her dancing attracted the attention of Lee Shubert, who spotted her at the Lotus Club in London in 1913, and for four years she appeared in Shubert revues: The Passing Show of 1914, The Passing Show of 1915, The Show of Wonders in 1916, and The Passing Show of 1917.
In 1918 she came under the management of Florenz Ziegfeld, for whom she appeared in Fancy Free and the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1920 she opened at the Amsterdam Theatre in Sally, which ran for three years and in which she was a sensation, especially singing Jerome Kern╒s ╥Look for the Silver Lining╙ and ╥Whip-poor-will.╙ Her appearance in Peter Pan in 1924 was her only non-musical role. She became the reigning queen of musical comedy in a series of bright, splashy productions: Sunny, (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach) in which she sang ╥Who,╙ 1925; Rosalie (Sigmund Romberg, George Gershwin, and others), 1928; Smiles (Vincent Youmans and others), in which she sang ╥Time on My Hands,╙ 1930; and As Thousands Cheer (Irving Berlin, Moss Hart) which also starred Ethel Waters, and in which Miller and Clifton Webb sang ╥Easter Parade╙ and ╥Not for All the Rice in China,╙ 1936.
Her youthful grace, small figure, dazzling smile, and blonde beauty made her seem the very embodiment of youth, and modern youth at that. The titles of her shows suggested the image she projected. She went to Hollywood to make film versions of Sally in 1929 and Sunny in 1930 and also starred in Her Majesty, Love, 1931. She died suddenly in New York City on April 7, 1936, of an acute infection. A film biography of her, released in 1949, was aptly titled Look for the Silver Lining.
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