How about a Mrs. Miller movie?
Anyone remember Mrs. Miller? Her version of "Downtown" will bring tears to your eyes.
shareI assume that I am like the vast majority of people, in that I have never heard of Mrs Miller, and as in my case, do not care either.
shareI wonder why you bothered to reply, then? And in such a snide, snarky way. Not knowing who Mrs. Miller is does not make you anything special. Quite the opposite, actually.
shareWhy don't you post your question on Mrs Miller's discussion board. I know why because I checked; her board is pretty much inactive.
This board is for Florence Foster Jenkins, not Mrs Miller, as you damned well know.
Okay. I listened to Mrs Miller singing Downtown on Utube and she murders this song with her warbly, off-key singing voice. I will take the Dusty Springfield version any day thank you very much. Mrs Miller was nearly 60 before she had a very brief claim to "fame", which culminated with her recording four 45s which flopped.
IMHO nobody would invest money to fund a mainstream movie about her, as it would not be commercially successful. The best that you could hope for would be a very low budget cable/tv movie.
There, so now you have my informed opinion, not one based on ignorance.
I have nothing more to say on this topic, but let's see what others have to say, if anything.
Hey Brianstaples4...
Why so angry? Anyway...a couple of corrections in your post.
Dusty Springfield didn't sing "Downtown." Petula Clark did. She had the HIT anyway.
Mrs. Miller didn't just record "4 45's." She made four ALBUMS. I know. I have them all. She was signed to CAPITOL RECORDS...at the time, home of the Beatles and the Beach Boys. And while nothing she recorded ever went Gold, she probably sold a hell of a lot more records than FFJ did in her day (being on a major label).
To the person who started this thread...
Yeah, a Mrs. Miller movie wouldn't be any more far-fetched than a Florence Foster Jenkins flick. Might even be MORE successful because it would be a period piece set in the 60's as opposed to the 30's/40's. However, Mrs. Miller probably wasn't as fascinating a "character" as FFJ was.
Here's a question for YOU (or anybody) though...who would play Mrs. Miller?
Sorry, it was Petula Clark who had a big hit with Downtown.
The LPs you mention were, apparently, responsible for Mrs Miller's brief fame, along with her TV appearances. I did not mention them in my post, which is different to saying she did record them. Do you own all of the 45s she released?
Not a lot of people would have been buying records when Florence Foster Jenkin's 78s were released, so you can't compare her record sales to Mrs Miller's.
Not a lot of people would have been buying records when Florence Foster Jenkin's 78s were released, so you can't compare her record sales to Mrs Miller's.
What is the point of this silly argument? One would have to be as delusional as FFJ herself to imagine that Mrs Miller is not the better known of the two in America or that either of them was known at all outside this country. Mrs Miller was a brief but famous fixture on the Tonight Show during the Johnny Carson years. Perhaps you are too young to remember, but that means she was very famous indeed. This happened in the 1960s, not the 1940s. Most of the people who would remember FFJ are dead. Millions of people alive today remember Mrs Miller.
And yet, what difference does any of that make? What matters is how interesting their lives were and whether an entertaining film could be made about Mrs Miller as it was about Mrs Jenkins. My childhood recollection (secondhand, granted, since the Carson show was on too late for me to watch) is that Mrs Miller was far from the flamboyant type that Mrs Jenkins was, so I am doubtful but open to learning otherwise. share
I don't live in the USA and I am too young, so there is no reason at all why I should be familiar with Mrs Miller, is there.
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