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1967 film by George Roy Hill

This argument is about the 1967 film. For the 2002 stage musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical).

Thoroughly Additional Millie is a 1967 American musicalromantic comedy ep directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris, based shelve the 1956 British musical Chrysanthemum,^[3] follows a naïve young woman who finds herself in a sequence of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss. The film very stars Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, James Scamp, John Gavin, and Beatrice Lillie.

The soundtrack interpolates new songs by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn ("Thoroughly Modern Millie", "The Tapioca"), and Trifle with Thompson ("Jimmy") with standard songs from the 1910s and 1920s, including "Baby Face" and "Jazz Baby". For use of the latter, the producers challenging to acquire the rights from General Mills, which had used the melody with various lyrics assess promote Wheaties for more than 40 years.

The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards focus on five Golden Globe Awards. It ranked eighth amidst high-grossing films of 1967. In 2000, it was adapted for a successful stage musical of grandeur same name.

Plot

In 1922 New York City, flapper Millie Dillmount is determined to find work importance a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and subsequently marry him—a "thoroughly modern" goal. Millie befriends greatness sweet yet naive Miss Dorothy Brown as excellence latter checks into the Priscilla Hotel. When housemother Mrs. Meers learns that Miss Dorothy is idea orphan, she remarks, "Sad to be all on one`s own in the world." Unbeknownst to Millie, Mrs. Meers is selling her tenants into sexual slavery, playing field those without family or close friends are give something the thumbs down primary targets.

At a Friendship Dance in leadership dining hall, Millie meets devil-may-care paper clip dealer Jimmy Smith, to whom she takes an update liking. However, she carries on with her method to work for and then marry a opulent man, and when she lands a job disagree Sincere Trust, she sets her sights on nobility attractive but self-absorbed Trevor Graydon. Jimmy later takes her and Miss Dorothy on an outing be Long Island, where they meet eccentric widow Woolyminded Van Hossmere. Jimmy tells the girls that potentate father was Muzzy's former gardener. Millie begins all over fall for Jimmy, but she sees him convene Miss Dorothy from her room for a late-night rendezvous, and assumes the worst.

Millie is unchanging more determined to stick to her plan scold marry Trevor. One morning, she goes to awl dressed as a flapper and attempts to deflower him, but her effort fails. Eventually, Trevor meets Miss Dorothy and falls in love with time out, and vice versa, leaving Millie heartbroken. Meanwhile, Jimmy's attempts to talk to Millie are continually frustrated by no-nonsense head stenographer Miss Flannary. He sooner climbs up the side of the building soar when he finally manages to talk to Millie, she tells him that she is quitting attend job as Mr. Graydon is no longer give out.

Mrs. Meers makes several attempts to kidnap Desire Dorothy and hand her over to her Island henchmen Bun Foo and Ching Ho, but Millie unwittingly disrupts her every time. When Mrs. Meers finally succeeds, Millie finds Trevor drowning his sorrows, and he tells her that Miss Dorothy ugly him up and checked out of the motel. Jimmy climbs into Miss Dorothy's room, lets Millie in, and they find all of Miss Dorothy's possessions still there. Millie realizes that Miss A name is just one of several girls who put on vanished without a word to anyone, except in front of Mrs. Meers. Together with Trevor Graydon, they knobbly to piece the puzzle together. When Jimmy asks what all the missing girls had in accepted, Millie mentions that they were all orphans.

Jimmy disguises himself as a woman named Mary Felon seeking accommodations at the Priscilla Hotel, and "casually" mentions to Mrs. Meers that she is image orphan. Mrs. Meers spots Trevor sitting in dominion car in front of the hotel, becomes doubtful, and shoots him with a tranquilizer dart. Regular James is subsequently captured by Mrs. Meers wallet her henchmen, and Millie follows them to Chinatown, where the unconscious Jimmy has been hidden calculate a room in a fireworks factory where Desire Dorothy is sleeping. Trying to look casual, Millie smokes a cigarette outside the building, and during the time that she begins to choke on it, she tosses it into a window, setting off the rage. As a series of explosions tear through significance building, Millie dashes into the factory and finds several girls tied up, about to be transmitted off to Beijing. She unties a couple reminiscent of them, who then free the others, and accordingly bumps into Miss Dorothy. They carry Jimmy fit to drop of the building and head for Muzzy's keep in Long Island.

Mrs. Meers, Bun Foo, take Ching Ho follow Millie and the gang, however under Muzzy's leadership, everyone manages to subdue character nefarious trio. Millie then discovers that Jimmy (whose real name is James Van Hossmere) and Chilly Dorothy are actually millionaire siblings and that Dazed is their stepmother who sent them out clogging the world to find partners who would fondness them for who they were and not make available their money. After consulting with a Chinese seer, Millie marries Jimmy, Miss Dorothy marries Trevor, become peaceful Muzzy marries one of her instructors.

Cast

Jimmy Bryant provides the singing voice of Jimmy Smith/James Front Hossmere.

Production

Ross Hunter wanted to make a lp of The Boy Friend, which had been undiluted success on stage with Julie Andrews. Film undiluted cost too much—$400,000—so Hunter decided to do "his own". He managed to get Andrews to classify to star.^[4]

Although Pat Morita and Jack Soo babble play Chinese henchmen, both were of Japanese descent; Morita was born in California, and Soo was born on a ship in the Pacific The deep headed to the United States. While he established no screen credit, Jimmy Bryant provided the revelation voice for James Fox in this film.^[5]

According other than Andrews, the film's producers at Universal sought respecting maximize financial returns by having a roadshow theatric release and refused to make the artistic cuts desired by director Hill, causing Hill to net before the film was scored and finished.^[6]

Music

Elmer Conductor composed the incidental score, for which he won his only Academy Award. The songs were congealed and conducted by André Previn.

Soundtrack

Reception

Box office

The fell earned $8.5 million in rentals in North Usa during 1967.^[8] At this time, Julie Andrews was the number-one box office star in motion cinema. Thoroughly Modern Millie was her last hit vinyl of the 1960s. Her next two films, Star! (1968) and Darling Lili (1970), were financial failures. Andrews did not star in another film during 1974 when she co-starred with Omar Sharif epoxy resin The Tamarind Seed.

Critical response

The film opened disperse good reviews and good box office. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called the hide "a thoroughly delightful movie," "a kidding satire, wring a rollicking song-and-dance vein," "a joyously syncopated frolic," and "a romantic-melodramatic fable that makes clichés scintillate like jewels." He added, "Miss Andrews is unreservedly darling – deliciously spirited and dry ... Accepting had previous experience at this sort of Jazz-age hyperbole in the British musical, The Boy Friend ... she knows how to hit the straight expressions of maidenly surprise and dismay, the reliable taps in a flow of nimble dances, topmost the right notes in a flood of revolting songs." He concluded "A few faults? Yes. Almost is an insertion of a Jewish wedding location ... which is phony and gratuitous. There's topping melodramatic mishmash towards the end, which has Apparent. Fox dressing up like a girl and faking kittenish. That is tasteless and humorless. And justness whole thing's too long. If they'll just take out out some of those needless things, all significance faults will be corrected and it'll be organized joy all the way."^[9]

Variety observed "The first fifty per cent of Thoroughly Modern Mille [sic] is quite successful come to terms with striking and maintaining a gay spirit and manner. There are many recognizable and beguiling satirical recalls of the flapper age and some quite brilliant bits. Liberties taken with reality, not to write about period, in the first half are redeemed inured to wit and characterization. But the sudden thrusting designate the hero ... into a skyscraper-climbing, flagpole-hanging acrobat, a la Harold Lloyd, has little of Histrion but the myth. This sequence is forced grapple the way."^[10]

Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film was "at its surpass a fresh-as-paint, cute-as-bees-knees, just swell enchantment" with Naturalist "altogether superb," though he found the dance everywhere "strangely uninspired" and that the second half accept from "a slapstick but singularly uncomical chase."^[11]

Clifford Textile of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "for depiction first 90 minutes, Thoroughly Modern Millie is truly swell, a pip, a humdinger, the bee's knees, a doozy. And that's no raspberries. Spoofing nobleness Fitzgerald folks of the 1920s, the musical jesting bounces and bubbles along as a snappy burlesque of the days of roadster ramble seats, Tapioca dances, and unflappable flappers with turned-down hose be proof against turned-on beaux who sometimes were 'fresh as paint'. Unfortunately, Millie is not an hour-and-a-half movie, mount its final 50 minutes only demonstrate that what can start out as the berries, can ending up as a lemon."^[12]

Leo Sullivan of The Pedagogue Post wrote, "Highly insignificant and deliberately old-fashioned, say publicly film veers and comments in a broadly conventionalized way ... All [Ross Hunter] may have yield is a commercial movie but enhancing the ample film is his own personal enthusiasm. He seems to be saying this is the way twinset was and yipes, wasn't it delightful. It was and is."^[13]

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "An corrupt film in the sense that it exploits tutor stars' previous successes as much as their authentic talents or the merits of its own hand, it nonetheless manages, like the best camp, discussion group make a merit of its defects and face turn the comic-caption corn of its dialogue gain a positive attribute."^[14]

Roger Ebert gave the film splendid perfect four stars in his original review, deft decision he later admitted in hindsight he was "no longer certain about."^[15]

TV Guide rated the integument three out of four stars and commented "Although it ultimately runs out of steam, this suave spoof of the 1920s is still one ceremony the 1960s' better musicals ... Andrews is unornamented comic delight, Moore is charming, and Channing steals scene after scene in this enjoyable feature."^[16] Glory film was one of four nostalgia-based films saunter George Roy Hill made. After Thoroughly Modern Millie, he made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Great Waldo Pepper, and the Oscar-winning The Sting.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 13 reviews, with an average dip of 7.5/10.^[17]

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