Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie takes place in the year 1922 in New York. At this point in history all the women wanted equal rites and wanted to have fun. The main characters in this film are Millie Dillmount, Miss Dorothy Brown, Trevor Graydon, Jimmy Smith, and Muzzy.

Millie Dillmount is a totally modern woman. She's come to the cite from the country in search of a husband. She strives to become a successful business woman and to marry well and be rich. She has every intention of marrying her boss.

Miss Dorothy Brown is an orphan new to the city from California. She's very naive and has no friends or family.

Trevor Graydon is Millie's new boss. He is a single business man.

Jimmy Smith is a man in the paper clip industry. He is madly in love with Millie.

The major theme of this movie is that love doesn't always have to include money and materialistic things. Also that not everything has to happen like they do in the movies.

Millie Dillmount lives in a hotel and Miss Dorothy Brown from California moves in. They automatically become friends. The house mother, Ms. Meers, is a middle aged Chinese woman who runs an illegal work ran by kidnapped white female orphans. Miss Dorothy is a target because she doesn't know a soul. Millie meets Jimmy Smith and he falls in love with her. She feels the same only she wants to marry her future boss whom she hasn't met quite yet. She's looking for love and money. When Millie finally gets a job her boss, Trevor Graydon, is a handsome, charming man.

One day for an outing Jimmy takes Miss Dorothy and Millie to his friend Muzzy`s house. Muzzy is a multi millionaire who becomes close friends with Dorothy and Millie.

Miss Dorothy meets Trevor Graydon and its love at first sight. Later that night Miss Dorothy is kidnapped by the Ms. Meers and taken to slave with the other white women. Jimmy, Millie, and Trevor figure out what's going on and come up with a plan.

Jimmy dresses up as a woman and gets a hotel room at the hotel and he makes it quite clear that he is an orphan and all alone in the world. He gets kidnapped and Millie follows as he leads the way to the others. Their plan works and everyone gets set free and Millie realizes she loves Jimmy.

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