#SONGS FROM THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE MOVIE#
#SONGS FROM THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE SERIES#

Oh drat and alas, wouldnвЂ™t you know landlady Mrs. IвЂ™ll go to my grave declaring this is how life should be. As it is.ДЄt the Priscilla Hotel for Young Single Ladies where she resides, Millie just as instantly bonds with Dorothy Brown (Moore), a clueless orphan fresh to the city, as the two of them perform a charmingly synchronized tap-dance up and down the вЂњstepsвЂќ of DorothyвЂ™s baggage in the elevator. Second, although the song announces that вЂњthis is 1922вЂќ, the short hair and flat bust is also the up-to-minute Twiggy look of 1967, so the sequence feels like itвЂ™s commenting on womenвЂ™s changing fashions and roles in both eras. First, in the context of AndrewsвЂ™ career, itвЂ™s as though weвЂ™re seeing the dowdy fashions of Mary Poppins and novice nun of The Sound of MusicвЂs Maria give way to the sexy and modern. What some people think is adorable is to others вЂњSodom and Gomorrah-bleвЂќ, so now itвЂ™s вЂњgoodbye, good-goody girlвЂќ, sheвЂ™s вЂњthoroughly modern Millie now!вЂќ вЂњHave you seen the way they kiss in the movies?вЂќ she trills. Is this liberation or brainwashing?ДЄs AndrewsвЂ™ voice-over sings in the words of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, reworking an idea in Cole PorterвЂs 1934 hit вЂњAnything GoesвЂќ, itвЂ™s all about changing fashions and values, specifically relating to women. Looking at the fashions around her and gazing into shop windows, she realizes that modern women bob their hair, show their legs, tie-down their busts, and smoke. During the opening credits, we witness button-down, long-skirted, un-hip Millie (Julie Andrews) instantly giving herself a consumer-society, advertising-driven makeover.

#SONGS FROM THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE MOVIE#

MooreвЂ™sВ very good in both, displaying physical dexterity and personal charm.В LetвЂ™s indulge.ДЄs scripted by Richard Morris and produced by Ross Hunter with his typical lavishness, Thoroughly Modern MillieВ takes place in an aggressively artificial incarnation of 1920s New York, a world of silent movie conventions and shopgirl romances. We now have the complete roadshow edition, restored in 4K, of George Roy HillвЂs musical Thoroughly Modern MillieВ (1967), and George SeatonвЂ™s long-elusive comedy-fantasy WhatвЂ™s So Bad About Feeling Good?В (1968). Now available from Kino Lorber are Blu-rays of two of these Universal films, including one thatвЂ™s never previously seen the light of home video. This experience convinced her to stick with TV for the time being. In between these milestones, she tried the big screen in four films. She went from the glamorous if restless Camelot-era housewife of The Dick Van Dyke ShowВ (1961-66) to the single career woman of The Mary Tyler Moore ShowВ (1970-77).

#SONGS FROM THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE SERIES#

Mary Tyler Moore won Emmy Awards for two TV series that defined the sitcom sophistication of their eras.

Songs from thoroughly modern millie