Lainie Miller, who interpreted a dazzling burlesque number The graduate Before working as a longtime Hollywood work defender, script supervisor, sales agent and producer, died. She was 84 years old.
Miller died on Tuesday in his house in Los Angeles in Toluca Lake after a battle against metastatic cancer, a family spokesman said The Hollywood Reporter.
Her husband, the actor of a famous character Dick Miller – he appeared in many films Roger Corman and Joe Dante, among them A bucket of blood And Gremlins – Died in January 2019 at the age of 90. They have been together for almost 60 years.
Born Sheila Elaine in Ontario, Canada, in March 1941, she took children's dance to recover from Polio, which did it in an iron lung from 3 to 5 years old.
She trained in contortion and ballet for 13 years – she has once played in Cygne lake In the Royal Alexandra de Toronto, the oldest operational theater in North America – and played in weekly radio dramas at the CBC until the age of 12 before moving to Hollywood with a nightclub at the age of 17.
She continued to play burlesque as a Las Vegas showgirl and headlining with the Revue de Minsky, then used her experience Play a stripper in a memorable scene which humiliates Katharine Ross 'Elaine Robinson in Mike Nichols' The graduate (1967).
To ensure the stability of her daughter, Barbara Ann, Miller left in 1966 to start a career in nursing care, putting his pay check from the film Paramount to her studies. “I wanted to start exercising my brain-for a change,” she said. “My acorns were tired.”
Miller increased the positions of nursing director, associate hospital administrator and chief work negotiator before returning to the film industry in the 1980s as an IATSE 871 script supervisor, working on the 1988-1990 series series Freddy nightmares And on the 1996 film DrillAmong other projects. She was also a commercial agent for more than a decade.
Miller has also spent time at various titles with a MPI and IATSE pension and health as a work delegate for three decades. She co-executive also produced the film of the Little League 2009 The perfect gameDirected by William Dear and with Clifton Collins Jr.
Miller met her future husband at Schwab pharmacy in Hollywood, grateful to the Comptoir de la Pharmacie de Corman War of satellites (1958). “This guy could put his shoes under my bed at any time,” she said.
During their recent years, they appreciated Latin dance and swing in Las Hadas in Northridge and traveled the world on a cruise when they did not sign autographs during conventions of fans across the country.
Their story is commemorated in the documentary This dick miller guy (2014), whose first at South by Southwest came to its 73rd anniversary. “I was his fan before meeting him,” she said Asbury Park Press Before a projection, “so I saw a dream.”
“Fierce, fabulous, passionate, full of spirit and romantic are only some of the words that friends and loved ones use to describe Lainie, who often held the fort with a huge tenacity and chutzpah so that her husband can maintain an actor career-the woman who are in which-and-son-in-man,” noted her family.
The survivors include his granddaughter (and the best friend), fall; his grandson, Ceaser; And his beloved dog, Popeye. She was preceded by her brother, Sheldon, and Barbara Ann.
