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5 unusual facts about Flournoy Earkin Miller


Flournoy Earkin Miller

Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake by William Bolcom and Robert Kimball; Viking Press April 12, 1973, tells the story of Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles's involvement with Shuffle Along.

In 1915, they appeared in André Charlot's production Charlot's Revue in England, and upon their return to the U.S., appeared in Darkydom with Abbie Mitchell.

Miller also starred in the 1930 version of Lew Leslie's Blackbirds on Broadway, and in the all-black Western Harlem on the Prairie (1937).

Miller's script for The Mayor of Dixie was the basis for Shuffle Along which premiered in 1921,a Broadway musical with music by Eubie Blake and lyrics by Noble Sissle.

F. E. Miller and Aubrey Lyles also starred in Shuffle Along as Steve Jenkins (Miller) and Sam Peck (Lyles).



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