[1] In 1951, after several small parts in television and movies such as The Vicious Years (1950), Miller came to the attention of producer-director Ida Lupino and through her influence was cast in Warner Brothers' The Big Trees, starring opposite Kirk Douglas.

Several more parts followed such as The Winning Team with Ronald Reagan and Kansas Pacific starring Sterling Hayden.

The actress also had parts in a number of series including Lassie, Annie Oakley, and Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

[6] In 1954, Miller met Glase Lohman, an actor who had a brief television and movie career in the mid-1950s,[citation needed] and they became engaged.

[7] According to newspapers at the time, she was discovered by police on her kitchen floor, surrounded by letters she had written to Lohman.