Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss. Apart from Andrews, the film stars Mary Tyler Moore, James Fox, John Gavin, Carol Channing, and Beatrice Lillie.

In New York City in 1922, flapper Millie Dillmount Julie Andrews is determined to find work as a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and then marry him a thoroughly modern goal. Millie befriends the sweet yet naive Miss Dorothy Brown Mary Tyler Moore as the latter checks into the Priscilla Hotel. When house mother Mrs. Meers Beatrice Lillie learns Miss Dorothy is an orphan, she remarks, Sad to be all alone in the world. Unbeknown to Millie, the woman is selling her tenants into white slavery, and those without family or close friends are her primary targets.At a friendship dance in the hall, Millie meets the devilmaycare paper clip salesman Jimmy Smith James Fox, to whom she takes an instant liking. However, she carries on with her plan to work for and then marry a rich man, and when she gets a job at Sincere Trust, she sets her sights on the attractive but selfabsorbed Trevor Graydon John Gavin. Jimmy later takes her and Miss Dorothy on an outing to Long Island, where they meet eccentric widow Muzzy Van Hossmere Carol Channing. Jimmy tells the girls that his father was Muzzys former gardener. Millie begins to fall for Jimmy, but sees him summon Miss Dorothy from her room for a late night rendezvous, and assumes the worst. ........

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