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Thoroughly Modern Millie [DVD]
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Genre | Musicals & Performing Arts, DVD Movie, Blu-ray Movie |
Format | Anamorphic, Dubbed, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled |
Contributor | Julie Andrews, George Roy Hill, Carol Channing, Mary Tyler Moore |
Language | English, Spanish |
Runtime | 2 hours and 32 minutes |
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
Not only is Thoroughly Modern Millie a zany romantic spoof of the Roaring Twenties, it’s a musical that won an Oscar for Best Original Music Score! Julie Andrews stars as Millie, an innocent country girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon (John Gavin), befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), fights off white slaver Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman, Jimmy (James Fox). In the end it takes a rich nutty jazz baby like Muzzy (Carol Channing) to unravel all these complications, give a great party, and match up lovers.
General Info
- G
- Musical
Cast
- Julie Andrews
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Carol Channing
Product Description
Product Description
Not only is Thoroughly Modern Millie a zany romantic spoof of the Roaring Twenties, it’s a musical that won an Oscar for Best Original Music Score! Julie Andrews stars as Millie, an innocent country girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon (John Gavin), befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), fights off white slaver Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman, Jimmy (James Fox). In the end it takes a rich nutty jazz baby like Muzzy (Carol Channing) to unravel all these complications, give a great party, and match up lovers.
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Julie Andrews is at her peak of adorability in this enjoyable (and surprisingly sarcastic) spoof of the 1920s. It has every trick: occasional silent-movie intertitles, flapper lingo ("Oh, banana oil"), and a laughable plot about women being sold into white slavery by the scheming manageress (splendid Beatrice Lillie) of a Hotel for Ladies, aided by a cabal of wicked Chinese. (The stereotypes are bearable only if you remember this is a spoof of silent movie melodrama.) Even with able support from Mary Tyler Moore and James Fox, this is Julie's show; she plays to the camera with the collusion of director George Roy Hill, who's clearly smitten with her silly streak. The movie has an annoying tendency to spend time on musical numbers--a Jewish wedding, a vaudeville act--that don't serve the plot. A future Broadway musical would create a new score, except for the delightfully catchy title tune. --Robert Horton
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 1022615
- Director : George Roy Hill
- Media Format : Anamorphic, Dubbed, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Run time : 2 hours and 32 minutes
- Release date : June 3, 2003
- Actors : Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
- Dubbed: : Spanish
- Subtitles: : French
- Language : Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00005JLIU
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,454 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #29 in Musicals (Movies & TV)
- #240 in Kids & Family DVDs
- #260 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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When I was younger I would tell my mom that I wanted to be Carol Channing's character and that someday I would be so rich that I could entertain ALL of my hobbies and more. She boxes, she sings, she dances, she flies planes, plays instruments, does acrobatics while singing and flying through the air.... and she flirts with every man on her staff. Millie was the main character, but Muzzy was the baddest b*tch of them all.
Julie Andrews, as usual... amazing. Mary Tyler Moore? Same. The whole movie? Gold.
Now time for the disclaimer:
This movie has some very extreme stereotypes of Chinese people, and literally scared my sheltered white + blonde mom in 1972 into thinking she was going to be sold into slavery... (she was 9). BUT... I can say this. It has also been the catalyst for some INTENSE conversations about race and stereotypes in my family with my mom & her parents. It is a reflection of how people being "complacent" to racism, especially through humor, WERE ALSO PERPETUATING RACISM.
Truly, there is no excuse for how bad some parts are...
You can say, oh it was the 60's! And, Oh they're just pretending it's the 20's! But the racism is there... and those parts, and the use of Chinese people as the butt of jokes, is not funny.
The only thing I can say (still not making an excuse!) and SPOILER WARNING:
Young people are changing. When I was about 8 or 9 and singing and dancing to this music everyday, I apparently told my mother that I was really unhappy with 2 things:
1. Why did they have to lump Chinese people in with evil Mrs.Meers? It makes them look bad. She was a super bad lady & she wasn't even Chinese! (Turns out Beatrice Lillie IS a British woman that the movie tries to play off as Chinese!! Having her yell at her assistants in horribly racist fake Chinese. I was NOT having it)
2. What might come off as a racist excuse (& was probably seen by the creators of this movie as a justification for the racism...) was the key factor into my little mind finding some enlightenment: NOT ALL CHINESE PEOPLE ARE BAD. There are good people and bad people. The movie ends with everyone being SAVED by a Chinese person. So yes, what may have started as a justification of "SEE we made one of them nice!" gave me this complex.....
There are really horrible white people.
And really kind white people.
There are really horrible people of every color, race, and background... (Like a British New Yorker pretending to be Chinese?)
And there are amazing people, of every color, race, and background.
Again, does that make this movie not racist? NO!
Will I stop watching it? No.
I will continue to keep it around to
1. REMIND US how freaking racist we were, NOT THAT LONG AGO. and
2. To remember that people can change.
(Oh and also 3. Because the music and silliness is unbeatable)
Our flapper heroine is Millie Dillmount (Andrews), who has decided to be a "mod" and turned in her long curls for a stylish bob. Her goal in life is to marry her boss and after interviewing several possibilities she hits the jackpot with Trevor Graydon (John Gavin), who hires her as his stenog and calls Millie "John" (as in "Johnny on the spot"). Millie likes young Jimmy (James Fox), who impresses her by inventing a new dance called the Tapioca and being a swell kisser, but he is poor and Millie has her ambitions. Millie's best gal-al is Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), who is sweet, innocent, and has lots of curls.
However, the life of Millie and her friends are caught between two imposing characters. At the hotel for young women where Millie lives there is Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie), who is always looking out for young girls who are "all alone in the world," like Miss Dorothy, who could be of use to a Chinese White Slavery ring. But Millie also encounters an unstoppable force for life in the person of the irrepressible Muzzy (Carol Channing), who lives the good life at her Long Island "Cottage" estate and pops up at key moments throughout the narrative.
The movie is not a great musical, mainly because it does not have any really great songs (as evidenced by the fact that the current Broadway musical has almost entirely new songs), but it is still great fun. Director George Roy Hill takes advantage of Andrews' comic flair and the film has great fun with her double takes and comic title cards as Millie periodically comments on the proceedings. The movie does employ stereotypes of the Chinese, but you have to admit these are balanced between the comic relief of Mrs. Meers' henchmen (Jack Soo and Pat Morita) and the wise old Tea (Philip Ahn).
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" won an Oscar for music and Channing was nominated for supporting role (she won a Golden Globe for her efforts, were clearly tailored to her style). But Lillie is a delight as well and I personally enjoy Gavin's mock-heroic performance. Moore just has to look sweet, although she does get to say a bad word (!), and Fox is charming although clearly too young for Andrews. Unfortunately the debacle of "Star" pretty much derailed Andrews' musical career in Hollywood, which is a loss because the comic flair she shows here is the same that she showcased in films like "Victor, Victoria" a couple of decades later. The good news is that the Broadway show will bring this film back to the public's notice; I am sure that is the reason I have spent the morning watch the film on TV.
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