Dancer, Actress, Comedianne, and Author. Dubbed "the Queen of Swing," she was a professional Lindy Hop dancer who appeared in movies, television shows and documentaries. Born in Harlem, New York, she took dance classes at a very young age and was performing at amateur nights at the age of five. At the start of the Great Depression, her family moved into a tenement apartment on 140th street that overlooked the Savoy Ballroom. In 1934, along with her high school dance partner, she won the Savoy Lindy Hop Contest at the Apollo Theater. She was hired by the dance master at the Savoy and became a member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. They toured Europe for seven months in 1935, and in 1936 began a United States tour with headliner Ethel Waters. In 1937 she made her film debut in MGM's "A Day at the Races" where she danced and sang the number "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" which featured singer Ivie Anderson and Duke Ellington's orchestra. She appeared on "Toast of the Town" with Ed Sullivan after competing in the Harvest Moon Ball in 1938. Whitey's Lindy Hoppers performed in the 1941 movie "Hellzapoppin'" where she portrayed a dancing cook. She left the Lindy Hoppers after a three- week tour in 1942 and worked as a producer for the Harlem nightclub "Smalls Paradise." She directed and toured with the Norma Miller Dancers and Norma Miller and Her Jazzmen from 1952 to 1968. After she moved to Las Vegas, she performed with Redd Foxx and Sammy Davis, Jr. in the 1960s and 1970s. She turned to comedy upon the advice of Foxx, and from 1972 to 1975 she traveled around Vietnam performing her solo comedy act for American troops. She presented and taught workshops until 2018 when she was 98. She appeared in six films (1937–1995), including "Malcolm X" (1992); guest starred in six television shows (1940–1992), which included four episodes of "Sanford and Son" and "Stompin' at the Savoy (1992); and appeared in eleven documentaries (1989–2016), including "Jazz by Ken Burns" (2000), "Queen of Swing" (2006), and "Alive and Kicking" (2016). She wrote her autobiography "Swingin' at the Savoy: The Memoir of a Jazz Dancer" and co-authored "The Redd Foxx Encylopedia of Black Humor" with Redd Foxx. In 2003 she was honored with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She died at the age of 99 from congestive heart failure.