Ann Miller - I'll Be Hard To Handle - from 'Lovely To Look At' - 1952

[@angelamezzapelli8889]

Ann Miller was definitely one of a kind. She had it all. Just watching her gives you joy. Even though she was second billed, she always managed to have the best numbers. She always stole the show. Thank God for film preservation and KZbin too..

[@davidallen508]

Angela, I totally agree with you.I hardly dare say it but when I put on “Easter Parade”,I usually only watch Ann Miller’s scenes.

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[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

As 19 year rehearsal pianist, Columbus, OH, 1973, Ms Miller asked me: MILLER ON TAP or MILLER'S HI-LIFE? Which title do I like best? The second one, I said. She pondered, "I think you're right, honey. Now tell that skinny-ass conductor friend of yours to slow down at end of Act 1. I' m tapping 300 miles per hour and he keeps rushing! Ann Miller was the best and off-stage her Texan accent was my command.

[@Justin.Martyr]

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[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

There may have been more gifted tappers and female vocalists but none were able to convey sheer joy like incomparable Ann Miller.

[@esmeephillips5888]

After her idol Eleanor Powell quit, Ann inherited the crown as Queen of Taps. The style was going out of fashion, but she kept it fresh for another decade or more. She lacked Ellie's athleticism but her speed and control on the ground were Grade One, and she branched out into hot adagio and Latinate duets with Ricardo Montalban. As others have commented, Ann frequently took a featured spot and walked off with the film. Her vitality and good cheer are undimmed nearly 70 years after her last dance on the big screen.

[@DDumbrille]

@@esmeephillips5888 I'd argue that she was a better dancer than Powell. Yes, Powell was AMAZING, and technically very skilled -- especially in the famous number w/Astaire -- but watch any of her work, and you'll notice that while she could tap fast, and spin fast, she couldn't do BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, like Ann Miller.

[@audreydaleski1067]

Who tapped better?

[@followthefleet1]

When Ginger Rogers did this number in 1935, with Fred Astaire, in "Roberta", she was 24, cute and sharp. Ann Miller here is, I think 28, sexy and sharp! Note that it was Ginger who gave Ann her first big break in 1937, in "Stage Door", when she got her first part, at Ginger's urging. They remained friends throughout their lives. And what lives they led !!!!

[@santinabellydance]

I adore Fred & Ginger❤ Ann waa so talented.

[@Justin.Martyr]

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[@esmeephillips5888]

And both lifelong friends of Hermes Pan, who choreographed both versions of 'I'll Be Hard to Handle".

[@Jack-ke5uv]

But, Ginger was hardly ever given a solo number..maybe once that I know of. But Ann specialized in solo numbers and rarely partnered with anyone like Ginger did.

[@althecatify]

Incredible dancer, ultra-pretty face, great body, & WOW legs!

[@25mmick]

The body, why aren't there any performers like this... a true gift! Ann miller was the best!!!

[@holdyourhats]

God stopped making this kind of performer!!

[@mayaa5048]

I'm such big fan after learning what a hard life she had but always stay true. Rest in Peace dear lady Miller.

[@RobbGF]

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[@Justin.Martyr]

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[@Jack-ke5uv]

@@Justin.Martyr What does all of this have to do with Ann Miller?

[@preyaswolves]

dear lord that is byfar the most ann miller worthy costume i've ever seen.

[@lindaeasley4336]

Most of her films were forgettable but her dancing segments from them will live on forever 👍

[@RobbGF]

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[@Justin.Martyr]

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[@amylynn59]

Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse, and Vera Ellen. Best of the best!

[@jorgesixtoantonio3162]

Very Beautiful Ann Miller

[@claudianash9811]

So freaking awesome!

[@voltape]

Just plain marvelous!!!!! and mind you I was at the premiere around 1952 (I was 17 then) wow!!!! it's wonderful to be old!!! yupiiii

[@jackanthony976]

JOSEBCACERES: Where was the premiere?

[@enniswhalen2428]

J B C -You're looking at 84 about now. Best wishes and stay with it!

[@voltape]

@@jackanthony976 sorry for the delay - well, actually what I meant is that I was in the premiere in Lima, Peru, at the Metro theater.

[@orchardist1965]

Ann looks different in this sequence,but theres no mistaking those beautiful appendages. Thank you

[@ccaammiinniiito2]

She certainly does. I'm glad you see that, too. I just wonder how would one go about rehearsing such a number and by extension all dancing numbers?

[@vickylondon3008]

The sexiest woman in the world forever and ever!!!! LOVE HER!!!

[@Justin.Martyr]

*I am your 6th UP Voter !!!* *None of these Sod O Mites, Ever RePLied to You in 4-years!!!* *I BeLieve in GOD, Cuz I can PROVE Ann MiLLer!!!* *Justin de Eugene, Feb. 28, 202'3'.*

[@KenDanieli]

The confidence of Ann Miller.

[@Robert_Robertson]

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[@estherphant]

Jose you are one lucky fellow. I wish I was born in those days to see all those great films when they premiered!

[@FilBurns]

ILOVE HER! AND HER COSTUMES!!!!

[@angelialvares]

Oh my...Anne Miller is truly lovely to watch and wow ! Watch out for that all American gal who knows what she wants and gets it!

[@ralfsiebert-ffm]

Another favorite dance number with Ann Miller! And the music is realy amazing. Thanks for this video download. I love it! Hooray for all the M-G-M Musicals from the 30's up to the 50's.

[@zeldaofarel]

I adored her in everything.

[@corinne54]

She was so fabulous!

[@grou28]

What a woman...

[@nathanielcraig3588]

Anyone else notice her shoes change after the cut around the 2:13 mark. They're glitter most of the number, but they're plain satin in a few shots. Very interesting continuity error hehe They switch back in the last shot.

[@Justin.Martyr]

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[@nathanielcraig3588]

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[@nathanielcraig3588]

@@Justin.Martyr So you're saying that noticing small inconsistencies in continuity is unintelligent? Interesting... I'll take advice from people with brains, thanks.

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[@DrRocksotheClown]

oh yeah man...they don't put you in big box office movies sining a nd dancing where millions of dollars are at risk un less you a re GOOD.truly she was one of the best.

[@pablopenabad8675]

Not only pretty but a most talented dancer ever! I feel so lonely without you Ann.

[@musichall7743]

FANTASTICO........VIVA ANN MILLER

[@DDumbrille]

She wouldn't sleep w/L.B. Mayer. He pursued her for at least 2 years, even proposing marriage, but she refused. As a result she was stuck in second billed roles during her entire career at MGM.

[@esmeephillips5888]

She told him she thought of him as a kindly uncle and suggested he date her mom. Not the response LB sought, although in the end he did marry a homely, middle-aged widow, not one of his starlets.

[@Jack-ke5uv]

Yes, she did appear to be stuck in second billed roles during her MGM career. But before MGM she was at Columbia where she got first billing in every film and the star role. So in a sense coming to MGM was a downward move for her in that sense.

[@DDumbrille]

@@Jack-ke5uv Those Columbia films are unfortunately mostly out of print, and never seen, except in a few poor-quality clips on youtube...

[@Jack-ke5uv]

@@DDumbrille I remember back in the 70's her old Columbia films were shown at the revival movie theater in my neighborhood. In fact there used to be quite a few revival movie theatres in my part of the city. They used to show Revelry With Beverly quite often. But with the advent of VHS and DVD these revival movie theaters have since closed and who knows where the prints are now. Probably out of print as you state.

[@sammy7819]

Love It!!

[@lumberlikwidator8863]

Beautiful lady, great number. And don’t forget this movie was Zsa Zsa Gabor’s film debut. I don’t know how Zsa Zsa was in this country almost a decade before someone got her in front of a camera.

[@Jack-ke5uv]

Zsa Zsa and Ann Miller in the same movie! Wow, this I've to see.

[@jackanthony976]

Ann's backup dancers with the wolf masks are pretty cool.

[@xua12]

thanks for posting this! I became a huge fan of Ann Miller after a movie marathon on TCM which showed several of her films

[@TahtahmesDiary]

💜💜💜🤗

[@ladyloveforevenmore]

This is such a magnificent staging ..♫♥♥♪♫...♫♥♥♪♫...♥♪♫♥♪...♥♪♫♥♪.. it would be one of the hundred best if there were a list of ranking performances!

[@JAfan3993]

This is so interesting. This song was in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie "Roberta" (1935) at RKO. They changed the lyrics for this movie though. Love Ann Miller!

[@esmeephillips5888]

The song was premiered on Broadway by the fabulous Polish soubrette and comedienne Lyda Roberti, who died in 1937 at only 31. Ann, unlike Ginger, does not parody Roberti's accent.

[@rylandgroves]

I was so surprised that Ann only had one solo in ‘Lovely To Look At’ , she is sensational here

[@Robert_Robertson]

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[@Jack-ke5uv]

She had a very short solo later on in the film as a fashion model in the fashion show sequence later in the film.

[@kellymcphaul2793]

It’s like her feet don’t even move! So fluid.

[@RobbGF]

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[@01synergist]

she is so excellent .... definitely :)) thx for this great upload !

[@jackrosess]

what a pair of gorgeous legs!!

[@bennyjazzful]

I agree 100%

[@yadirajimenaberriomuneton9340]

Estas si son verdaderas divas hermosas y elegantes

[@RobbGF]

The Thrill of Brazil (1946) - Evelyn Keyes, Ann Miller and Keenan Wynn kzbin.info/www/bejne/qofNd36fgbqFa9U

[@verypopular]

Happy first day of may ...

[@musicloveBH]

i clapped with them!

[@cryptess]

... Did she just do a Mae homage? I think I can die happy now.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Yep.

[@yadirajimenaberriomuneton9340]

Esto si es arte usa como siempre adelantada 70 años y hasta más mientras en USA estaba pasando todo el adelanto mundial en todo América latina todavía las mujeres y hombres eran indígenas

[@Bluejeans0701]

Ann Miller would have been the biggest MGM musical star but for Judy Garland.

[@MrCrowebobby]

No she wouldn't have. There's a difference between talent and star quality.

[@Jack-ke5uv]

@@MrCrowebobby I wish Ann Miller was in every scene.

[@MystMoonstruck]

"I'm just an iron butterfly at heart!" Is that where it came from, or are there earlier uses of the phrase?

[@danielstanwyck2812]

way before. even before j. mcdonld

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@danielstanwyck2812 Though this rewording must be an MGM in-joke at the expense of poor Jeanette, who was a back number by 1952.

[@hebneh]

The "wolf howls" at the start of the number woke up my dog - as I suspected they would, when they started. In keeping with the requirements of 1950s choreography, the male dancers are shown on the floor with their knees splayed - usually at least one male has to slide in from off-camera on his knees in this time period.

[@esmeephillips5888]

It's a Jack Cole thing. Designing dances for restricted spaces such as nightclub floors led him to emphasize arresting, jerky acrobatics over the smooth formations and expansive filmic space of Berkeley and Pan. But the creator of 'The Continental' was easily capable of working on a smaller canvas and moving with the times. Cole disliked tap, but Hermes knew what Ann was best at after 15 years' friendship. He mashed up styles for her. Later Fosse and Carol Chaney were awarded the credit for ideas that Cole and Pan had been trying ten years before.

[@all-world-all-time]

Hermes Pan choreographer (IMDb)

[@esmeephillips5888]

Hermes Pan was Ann's close and lifelong friend, as he was with Ginger, Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable.

[@brucewilliamson9073]

HOT

[@purpleivory2]

Pre helmet hair era, too.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Ann channels Mae West at 0:25.

[@Justin.Martyr]

*You can HAVE Mae West, Trumper, I'LL Take Ann MiLLer!!!*

[@nellololli8798]

Ho visto "questo" video con Ann Miller con sottofondo la canzone BE MY BABY dove posso ritrovarlo ? Grazie!!!

[@MbartM96]

It should be,the same man who designed the ruby slippers for the wizard of oz designed for this...

[@feathersforfun]

John Duocette did the sets

[@TXejas19]

Anne's got some thickums on her lol. i do too, go girl

[@jimrick6632]

LOVE THIS NUMBER BUT PLEASE UPLOAD IN MP4....

[@Jack-ke5uv]

This movie was sold on laser disc back in the 1990's. The remastered print on laser disc is quite incredible with the color and all.

[@d.l.x801]

H.T.H. 😉 . . . . JUST CANT HEP IT ! hey @ least u were fore- warned 😇 with no hard feelings !!! LOL 👍

[@grassshadow1]

Oh look it's the villains from Bioshock

[@adoreslaurel]

And they said she could party to all hours and still come up all guns blazing the next day on set.

[@Jack-ke5uv]

And Ann said she did not need to do a tap dance warm up...she just went out there and did her thing.

[@mollynixon7123]

Tap dance doesn't look real sometimes. It amazes me

[@RobbGF]

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[@Justin.Martyr]

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[@slc2466]

Love Annie- check out my tribute here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipbQc6GEl8mWfrM

[@jamesryan6008]

What a let down. First new lyrics( not an improvement), ugly color cinematography, dull choreography, and worst of all, Ann Miller looks terrible. I never thought Adrian could design an ugly gown but he did in this case. The color is unflattering and it makes her appear overweight.

[@jameskelly8358]

James Ryan it was this movie that Kathryn Grayson said that Adrian didn't know what to do with her big bust, so just kept putting big bows on it to try and hid it but it just made it look even bigger.

[@Mirpeace93]

:( . I think she looks fabulous. It can look a little garish but i just choose to take it as camp fab. If it makes her look wider than she is...if anyone could pull off looking more plush its Ann. She could afford it.

[@Joylibelle]

James Ryan I agree. Although Ann is a wonderful dancer, she looks big. I prefer the Fred and Ginger dance of I’ll be Hard to Handle.. it’s much better imo musically too. And then these masked men, it’s creepy! Why do they hide their faces? Are they ashamed or something? If I were to play the Ann Miller part in being ‘hard to handle’, I would have unmasked them, lol.

[@300books]

Joylibelle: The men are wearing wolf masks because they're "wolf-whistling" at Ann. I thought that was obvious, but I guess maybe not.

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@Mirpeace93 If you're a cabaret dancer called Bubbles, you are not going to come on dressed like Greer Garson, or even Jane Powell.