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Ann Miller Misfortune Into a Windfall for Is Stuck in a Tragic Two- Others ONG and dance figured out a way to turn her legend Ann Miller misfortune into a windfall for is stuck in a tragic two- others. She’s donated more step with osteoporosis. ANN MILLER: than $300,000 worth of her The chronic bone clothes to the Motion Picture Sdisease has caused part of Home in Woodland Hills, Miller’s spine to collapse, Calif. And in October, the and the once-5-foot-6 beauty prestigious home for aging has shrunk to a diminutive MY BATTLE WITH stars will host a fashion 5-foot-1. show called The Ann Miller “I had three disks collapse Collection with celebrities in my spine and now it’s modeling her classic outfits. disintegrating,” the 80-year-old CRIPPLING BONE DISEASE “Ann is such a delight,” a actress tells GLOBE. “I lost close friend of Miller tells half a foot in just one year. Legendary GLOBE. “In spite of it all, It’s unbelievable.” EXCLUSIVE her positive spirit and good Thrice married and divorced hoofer humor still shine through.” Miller says with heels she used GLOBE Even with a dauntless to come up past the shoulder is the attitude, the still-spunky star of her longtime beau, 6-foot-4 INTERVIEW has found osteoporosis to be Morgan Woodward – but no incredible a difficult adjustment after longer. such an active life. “I used to be 5-foot-6, but shrinking “It feels so strange to be now I’m a shrimp,” she admits. literally shrinking before my “It’s very odd to see Morgan woman very eyes,” she confesses. and me standing next to each “I do feel fine most of the other. This osteoporosis time, except right before it business is really something. rains when my back starts There’s nothing you can do to hurt from the humidity. but to keep smiling.” “It’s rough, but I just Miller started dancing keep going. When I eat in when she was just 5 years ‘I used restaurants, they give me old and first appeared on the a cushion to sit on so I can silver screen in 1934’s Anne reach the table. And in my of Green Gables at age 11. to be car, I have a cushion so I She went on to star in such can look out.” classics as Stage Door, Easter 5-foot-6, Perhaps the toughest Parade and Kiss Me Kate. She pitfall may be selling her also wowed ’em on stage in but now Beverly Hills home, which the smash hits Mame, Sugar she bought for her mom Babies and Follies. I’m a in 1949 and GLOBE “I stopped dancing five photographed in 2001. years ago,” Miller notes. “And shrimp’ “The thought of leaving that’s when the osteoporosis this place is upsetting,” started.” Ann Miller doesn’t Miller says. “But the Now that most of her old stand as tall as she once staircase is 25 steps and it’s wardrobe no longer fits did alongside her beau getting harder and harder her dwindling frame, the NOW Morgan Woodward 1998 for me to manage them.” bighearted entertainer has – ROBIN MIZRAHI NEWS: Associate Design Editor: AMI PHOTO LIBRARY: EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/ ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Marc Richards PHOTO EDITOR: Rochelle Paller Martin Elfers CHIEF LIBRARIAN (Photo & Text): Kathleen Cottay Steve Coz SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT SENIOR EDITOR: Jeffrey Rodack CHIEF COPY EDITOR: CORPORATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR: ADMINISTRATION/HUMAN Patty Carroll Deputy Chief Photo Librarian: CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND NEWS EDITORS: Clif Dunn, Kimberly Riendeau Colin Jenkins RESOURCES: Daniel A. 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