- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMona Loretta Miller
- Moi-Yo Miller was born on April 24, 1914 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. She died on October 7, 2018 in Prahran, Victoria, Australia.
- She fell in love with Bill Jansen, Dante's son. When Bill was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident in Brisbane, she became not just an assistant but also one of the family.
- She redesigned costumes, sets and music, vetted staff and in quick time become co-star of the largest touring show in the world at the time - the Dante Mystery Revue.
- She was born Loretta Miller in 1914, the start of World War 1. But even way back then, a world away, she was someone else - someone known as Miki Miller. The Moi-Yo ( ('rare flower' in Chinese) came later, in Asia where Miller was readily mispronounced. Dante pounced on the exotic tone and she was renamed.
- She first met Dante ( a professional magician known under the name Dante the Magician ) while still in her late teens when she was appearing in a musical revue in Melbourne. Dante had decided to recruit an Australian girl as an assistant after, in his words, "he saw in Melbourne more beautiful women per square block than he had seen in any other part of the World".
- A public art mural of Miller's face was created by artist Michael Cassar in June 2016 on the corner of James St and Minns Lane, Geelong.
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