Norma Miller and Frankie Manning were both consultants on the Lindy Hop dance scene at the Roseland Ballroom. However, only Frankie Manning has been given credit as a dance consultant. Otis Sallid/choreographer said "Just for the record. I studied for a month with Frankie Manning so that the work in this film would be accurate. I brought him and Norma Miller on as a consultant so that the larger world would know and revere them."
At age 15, she joined Whitey's Lindy Hoppers as the dance troupe's youngest member. They toured Europe, the United States and South America.
She appeared in several documentaries on swing dance and jazz, and taught at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii. She received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2003.