Marilyn Miller
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"Marilyn Miller" was one of the most popular Broadway theatre/Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, but it was the combination of these talents that endeared her to audiences. On stage she usually played rags-to-riches Cinderella characters who lived happily ever after. Miller's enormous popularity and famed image were in distinct contrast to her personal life, which was marred by disappointment, tragedy, frequent illness, and ultimately her sudden death due to complications of nasal surgery at age 37.

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What I don't get is: When you have two interstates running east and west, why do they work on both of them at the same time, for three years in a row? And then, you try to use Michigan Avenue and Ford Road instead, and they're working there, too.

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Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

[Just before his death, O'Donoghue attended a book party in Manhattan with Marilyn Miller. As luminaries and celebrities drifted by, O'Donoghue asked his friend,] Why didn't I get this? Why did it turn out this way? ... Because, Michael, you didn't want it. You kicked it in the teeth.

We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero.