Mary Louise Miller

Mary Louise Miller was born on January 15, 1924, in Los Angeles. Between the ages of 8 months and 4 years, Mary Louise was a featured player in 16 silent films, performing with such stars as Mary Pickford, Rin Tin Tin, Clara Bow, Theda Bara, Colleen Moore, Delores Costello, Corrine Griffith, Jason Robards, and Gary Cooper. Baby Mary Louise's parents owned a cleaning shop in Hollywood, down the street from FBO studios, later to become RKO. When they heard about a casting call for infants, they wheeled Mary Louise down to the studio in her carriage and she easily got her first role in the 1925 film "Drucilla with a Million." Other movie roles soon followed. Her next film role was as the title baby in the 1925 Fred Thomson western, "The Bandit's Baby." She came to national attention when newspapers dubbed Mary Louise "The Million Dollar Baby" after superstar Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks purportedly offered the Millers a large sum of money to adopt her. Tabloids put th