Millie (film)

Millie 1931 is a PreCode drama film directed by John Francis Dillon from a screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Ralph Morgan, based on a novel of the same name by Donald Henderson Clarke. The film was an independent production by Charles R. Rogers, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, after their acquisition of Path Exchange. It starred Helen Twelvetrees in one of her best roles, with a supporting cast which included Lilyan Tashman, James Hall, Joan Blondell, John Halliday and Anita Louise.

Betrayed a second time, Millie becomes very bitter. With her female cohorts, Helen and Angie Lilyan Tashman and Joan Blondell, respectively, she becomes a woman who loves a good time, floating from man to man. This goes on for several years, until she hears that Damier has taken an interest in her teenage daughter, Connie, who bears a striking resemblance to Millie. Millie warns Damier to leave her daughter alone, but, although he promises to stay away from Connie, he ignores Millies warning, and takes Connie to a remote lodge to seduce her. Millie is tipped off, goes to the lodge with a gun, confronts Jimmy and kills him.In the following murder trial, Millie tries to keep her daughters name out of the press and claims not to remember why she shot Jimmy. She says that another woman ran out of the lodge after the shot but claims that she didnt see who the woman was and has no idea as to the other womans identity. The prosecution thus claims that Millies motive was jealousy of Jimmys romantic relationship with this unknown other woman. Millies friends, however, help to bring out the truth, and when the jury finds out that Millies true motive was to protect her daughter from Jimmys lascivious intentions, they acquit her. In the end, Millie is reunited with her daughter and her estranged husbands family. ........

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