THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE [Roadshow Edition] [1967 / 2021] [Blu-ray] [USA Release] The Movie That Inspired the Tony Award Winning Broadway Sensation! For Jazz Babies Everywhere!
The hit musical ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ stars the iconic Millie Dillmount played by Dame Julie Andrews as in the title role of an innocent small-town girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way Millie Dillmount becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon played by John Gavin, and befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy Brown played by Mary Tyler Moore, and fights off the wretched Mrs. Meers played by Beatrice Lillie and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman, Jimmy Smith played by James Fox. In the end it takes a rich and nutty jazz baby like Muzzy Van Hossmere played by Carol Channing to unravel all these complications, gives a great party and match up the lovers. George Roy Hill directed this zany romantic spoof of the Roaring Twenties that garnered seven Academy Award® nominations and won for its wonderful film score by the great Elmer Bernstein.
FILM FACT No.1: Awards and Nominations: 1967 Laurel Awards: Win: Golden Laurel Award for Female Comedy Performance for Dame Julie Andrews. Nominated: Golden Laurel Award for Female Supporting Performance for Carol Channing. 1968 Academy Awards®: Win: Best Music for an Original Music Score for Elmer Bernstein. Win: Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Carol Channing. Win: Best Art Direction and Set Decoration for Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb and Howard Bristol. Win: Best Costume Design for Jean Louis. Nominated: Best Sound for Universal City Studio Sound Department. Nominated: Best Music and Original Song for Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn for the song “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Nominated: Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment fir André Previn and Joseph Gershenson. 1968 Golden Globes: Win: Best Supporting Actress for Carol Channing. Nominated: Best Motion Picture for a Comedy or Musical. Nominated: Best Actress for a Comedy or Musical for Dame Julie Andrews. Nominated: Best Original Score for Elmer Bernstein. Nominated: Best Original Song for Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn for the song “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” 1968 Writers Guild of America: Win: WGA Award (Screen) for Best Written American Musical for Richard Morris.
FILM FACT No.2: Producer Ross Hunter wanted to make a film of ‘The Boy Friend,’ which had been a hit on stage with Julie Andrews. Film rights cost too much at $400,000 so Ross Hunter decided to do “his own” and managed to get Andrews to agree to star. Although Pat Morita and Jack Soo each play Chinese henchmen, both were of Japanese descent; Morita was born in California, and Soo was born on a ship in the Pacific Ocean headed to the U.S.A. While he received no screen credit, Jimmy Bryant provided the singing voice for James Fox in this film. Elmer Bernstein composed the incidental score, for which he won his only Academy Award® and the songs, were arranged and conducted by André Previn.
Cast: Dame Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, John Gavin, Jack Soo, Pat Morita, Philip Ahn, Anthony Dexter, Cavada Humphrey, Herbie Faye, Michael St. Clair, Lisabeth Hush, Ann Dee, Beatrice Lillie, David Ahdar (uncredited), Jackie Allen [Miss Dorothy Brown singing voice] (uncredited), Leon Alton (uncredited), Larry Arnold (uncredited), Arline Bletcher (uncredited), Albert Carrier (uncredited), Mae Clarke (uncredited), Alan Copeland [Voice on Record] (uncredited), Don Crichton (uncredited), Paula Dell (uncredited), Ted DeWayne (uncredited), Bonnie Evans (uncredited), Darryl Ferges (uncredited), Robert Foulk (uncredited), Ben Frommer (uncredited), Bobby Gilbert (uncredited), George Golden (uncredited), Marianne Gordon (uncredited), Mary Grover (uncredited), Ed Haskett (uncredited), James Hibbard (uncredited), Shep Houghton (uncredited), Rini Jarmon (uncredited), Joseph La Cava (uncredited), Bill Lee [Trevor Graydon singing voice] (uncredited), Mary Lee (uncredited), Billy Louie (uncredited), Karl Lukas (uncredited), Todd Mason (uncredited), Joseph Mell (uncredited), Lou Nova (uncredited), Murray Pollack (uncredited), Benito Prezia (uncredited), Leoda Richards (uncredited), Christopher Riordan (uncredited), Robert Robinson (uncredited), Sheila Rogers (uncredited), Victor Rogers (uncredited), Benny Rubin (uncredited), Ray Saunders (uncredited), Russell Saunders (uncredited), Diane Sayer (uncredited), Jeffrey Sayre (uncredited), Buddy Schwab (uncredited), Bernard Sell (uncredited), Billy Snyder (uncredited), Hal Taggart (uncredited), Jay Thompson (uncredited), Jackie Ward [Ethel Pease singing voice] (uncredited), Kenneth Yee (uncredited), Alberto Zoppe [The Zoppe Troupe Member] (uncredited), Ruggera Zoppe [The Zoppe Troupe Member] (uncredited) and Sandra Zoppe [The Zoppe Troupe Member] (uncredited)
Director: George Roy Hill
Producer: Ross Hunter
Screenplay: Richard Morris
Composer: Elmer Bernstein (music) and André Previn (songs)
Costumes Designer: Jean Louis (gowns)
Choreographer: Rob Ashford
Cinematography: Russell Metty, A.S.C. (Director of Photography)
Image Resolution: 1080p (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English: 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
English: 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo Audio
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 151 minutes
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Universal Pictures / Kino Lorbo Studio Classics
Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ [1967] Millie Dillmount [Dame Julie Andrews] has come to New York City with a plan. Millie Dillmount intends to get a job and marry her boss… but things aren’t going well. With more and more other single women pouring into the city, Millie is just one of many including her new friend Miss Dorothy Brown [Mary Tyler Moore] who hopes to become an actress. Despite meeting a lowly paperclip salesman named Jimmy Smith [James Fox] whom Miss Dorothy Brown likes, Millie Dillmount is looking at Trevor Graydon ]John Gavin] who has taken an interest in Miss Dorothy Brown. As Miss Dorothy Brown plots her next move, an unseen danger is lurking in the hotel…girls are disappearing and Mrs. Meers [Beatrice Lillie] has her next target!
‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ came out in the late 1960’s but feels like a throwback in a lot of ways… some good and some bad. It is a shame that there are some bad aspects to the musical because it casts a bit of a sour note in an otherwise enjoyable “romp” type picture.
‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ is pretty obvious in its plot with a couple of twists. I felt James Fox’s character was a rather obvious twist though I didn’t expect the plot twist with Mary Tyler Moore. The basic romance premise and storyline is very typical of the 1960’s, but unfortunately it is tempered with stereotypical versions of Chinese villains. It is a weird blend of homage to the old versions of the Chinese in serials, etc. from the 1920’s, but it still just comes off as slightly racist, which unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it.
The cast is a great deal of fun. Dame Julie Andrews is great as Millie Dillmount. Mary Tyler Moore is a good choice for the flighty Miss Dorothy Brown and Carol Channing steals her scenes as the adventure loving Muzzy Van Hossmere. James Fox is quite bland as Jimmy Smith and John Gavin is intentionally bland as Trevor. The head of the villains is Beatrice Lillie playing an Asian woman, with Jack Soo playing the Oriental #1 and Pat Morita playing Oriental #2 playing the dynamic duo for their boss henchwoman Mrs. Meers with comical misadventures.
The film also looks amazing. The setting is 1920’s New York and the look is the flapper style so the costumes are all quite good. There are some nice homage to Harold Lloyd with James Fox climbing the outside of Millie Dillmount’s office building as in the film ‘Safety Last’ and your typical comedic car chase which kind of has aspects of the film ‘Speedy,’ both of which would have been popular in the 1920’s.
‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ is a crazy but enjoyable parody of the films and fashion trends during the 1920’s, it has everything from jazz music to silent movie title cards, and there is a hilarious kidnapping subplot tied in with the main storyline. The title song, costumes and set design all reflect the era very well, the cinematography is totally excellent, making everything interesting to look at, and some of the editing work and the sound design are great too. The supporting cast adds a lot of flavour to the mix. Beatrice Lillie comes off the best but Jack Soo, Pat Morita, and just about everyone else is close behind. Maybe it is a bit silly, maybe it is overlong, but it is a total magical delight and a compelling film due to its uniqueness and bizarreness. It was really sad to learn that this was Beatrice Lillie's final film, because the actress retired from the stage due to Alzheimer's disease and Julie Andrews remembered that Beatrice Lillie, as Mrs. Meers in ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ that was filmed in 1966 and released in 1967, had to be prompted through her lines and was often confused on set. But her henchman assistants had better things ahead because Oriental #1 as Jack Soo would go on to the “12th Precinct,” while Oriental #2 as Pat Morita would go on to own Arnold's in Milwaukee and help Daniel LaRusso become a karate kid.
BONUS: Here we get the original OVERTURE before the film starts and we get to hear all of the wonderful composed film score that we hear throughout the film and lasts for 5:19 minutes, but for some unknown reason at 3:25 minutes the screen goes blank and inspecting viewers might think something has gone seriously wrong with the print. At around chapter 6 at around 1:28:34 we get the wonderful INTERMISSION and not only do we hear the dulcet tones of Dame Julie Andrews singing all the wonderful songs in the film, but we also get to hear all of the wonderful composed film score which of course was a standard practice they did with certain Hollywood musical films in the 1950’s through to the 1960’s that lasted 155 minutes and it was done to give audiences a break or to get refreshments out in the foyer and then get themselves ready for the next part of the film ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ and all the gang with their ongoing adventure of their new adventure in New Yok City. But at chapter 10 at around 2:27:24 we get the wonderful EXIT and once again we get to hear all of the wonderful composed film score again, but for some unknown reason they make the screen go completely blank, still of course the audiences would not worry, as they were all leaving in an orderly fashion making their way out of the cinema, but to me, they should at least still kept a still image from the film right to the very end.
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE MUSIC TRACK LIST
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Words by Sammy Cahn) (Music by Jimmy Van Heusen) [Sung by Jimmy Bryant, Dame Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore] (uncredited)
THE TAPIOCA (Words by Sammy Cahn) (Music by Jimmy Van Heusen) [Sung by Jimmy Bryant, Dame Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore] (uncredited)
DRINK LA CHAIM (Words by Sylvia Neufeld) (Music by Sylvia Neufeld) [Sung by Dame Julie Andrews] (uncredited)
JIMMY (Words by Jay Thompson) (Music by Jay Thompson) [Sung by Dame Julie Andrews] (uncredited)
LOOKING AT THE WORLD THRU ROSE TINTED GLASSESS (Written by Tommie Malie and Jimmy Steiger) (uncredited)
BABY FACE (uncredited) (Lyrics by Benny Davis) (Music by Harry Akst) [Sung by Dame Julie Andrews]
AH! SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE (The Dream Melody) (uncredited) (Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young) (Music by Victor Herbert) [Sung by Jackie Allen and Bill Lee]
DO IT AGAIN (uncredited) (Lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva) (Music by George Gershwin) [Sung by Carol Channing]
JAZZ BABY (uncredited) (Lyrics by Blanche Merrill) (Music by M.K. Jerome) [Sung by Carol Channing]
I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT YOU’RE IN LOVE WITH ME (uncredited) (Lyrics by Clarence Gaskill) (Music by Jimmy McHugh)
STUMBLING (uncredited) (Written by Zez Confrey)
POOR BUTTERFLY (uncredited) (Lyrics by John Golden) (Music by Raymond Hubbell) [Sung by Dame Julie Andrews]
ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE (uncredited) (Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald) (Music by James F. Hanley) [Sung by Ann Dee]
THE JAPANESE SANDMAN (uncredited) (Lyrics by Ray Egan) (Music by Richard A. Whiting) [Sung by Jack Soo and Pat Morita]
JINGLE BELLS (uncredited) (Music by James Pierpont)
Hallelujah Chorus from "Messiah" (uncredited) (Words adapted from the Bible by Charles Jennens) (Music by George Frideric Handel)
WITH PLENTY OF MONEY AND YOU (uncredited) (Music by Harry Warren)
Lullaby (uncredited) (Music by Johannes Brahms)
WHERE, OH WHERE, HAS MY LITTLE DOG GONE (uncredited) (Music from German folk song)
Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin" (uncredited) (Music by Richard Wagner)
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Blu-ray Image Quality – Universal Pictures and Kino Lorber Studio Classics presents the film ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ with a beautiful 1080p resolution that is really beautiful and has been framed with its 1.85:1 theatrical aspect ratio. Sharpness and Technicolor reproduction are the most obvious amazing improvements, compared to the inferior DVD release, and the film’s grain structure is now much more astutely resolved in this high definition transfer. There are no instances of dirt, dust, splices, or tears to be seen. The film has been fully restored in 4K by Universal Pictures, and the results are suitably pristine.
Blu-ray Audio Quality – Universal Pictures and Kino Lorber Studio Classics brings us the film with just one standard 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio sound mix that does a very fine job spreading the music and effects across the front soundstage. Dialogue and song lyrics are clearly rooted to the centre speaker. There are no problems with hiss, pops, crackle, or flutter. This being the roadshow edition of the film, the overture, and the entr’acte, especially with a medley of Dame Julie Andrew’s solos in the film, and the exit music is also provided. The soundtrack is delivered with no discernible flaws.
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Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:
Newly Restored in 4K by Universal Pictures
Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin and Art Historian Ian McAnally: As the film starts, we are welcomed first by Lee Gambin and is joined in the commentary by Ian McAnally to talk about the film ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE,’ and they talk about that this is the first time they have viewed the film in a very long time and Lee Gambin says that the first time he viewed the film when he was a young child on Channel 7 in Australia and his Mum said he should watch it and was totally enchanted by what he viewed, whereas Ian McAnally watch the film on an old fashioned VHS tape and found Carol Channing so glamorous and of course both these people are Australian living in Australia. Both of them thought when the film was released got very bad press from the critics and felt this was very unfair as they feel it is a totally brilliant film for the 1960’s period, and also felt it gave a good portrayal of the 1920’s by the Hollywood filmmakers, showing how young women wanted to cast the shackles of the past and become much more modern young women and much more independence from their elder siblings. When the taxi arrives outside the Priscilla Hotel For Single Young Laddies, and when the taxi driver gets out they comment that it was the character actor Herbie Faye who was an American actor and vaudeville comedian who appeared in both of Phil Silvers' CBS television series, The Phil Silvers Show and The New Phil Silvers Show (1955 – 1959). Both feel that Dame Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore are a dynamic pair and are really fun to watch, even though the two actresses are totally different in style and are definitely both worthy actors. But they mention with the character of Mary Tyler Moore is wealthy, and of course is very naïve when it comes to paying the taxi driver and is a very funny scenario. Of course on top of all that, they say that Mary Tyler Moore was equally famous when she regularly appeared on the American Television series “The Dick Van Dyke Show” [1961 – 1966] which made the actress very famous and also won several EMMY Awards for that show. But they also point out that after the incident with the taxi driver scene that Dame Julie Andrews is left there standing and has to carry the three suit cases into the hotel lobby which they thought was a very funny scene, but the other aspect is that the character Millie Dillmount is always on hand to help put in any situation. When we are in the lobby and we get to be introduced to Mrs. Meers [Beatrice Lilly] and of course always says those iconic words, “it’s sad to be alone in the world,” which always stood out for me ever since I first saw the film on the Television in the UK, and of course Mrs. Meers is the true classic cartoon character you use to see in other Hollywood film musicals in the 1960’s. Another iconic aspect of the film, is the use of the lift or as Americans call it an elevator, and the comic way it is used in the film where they have to improvise to get the lift to work throughout the film by tap dancing to get it moving which is another favourite part of the film that I thoroughly enjoyable watching experience and especially with the help of the wonderful and very talented choreographer Rob Ashford and especially to get Dame Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore to do their tap dance routine so wonderfully in a very combined space in the lift. The next great scene both of them talk about is the dance get together in the hotel, where we are introduced to a very young James Fox as Jimmy and how he seamlessly introduces everyone to the new dance crazy “THE TAPIOCA” and especial with Dame Julie Andrews and once again the wonderful choreographer Rob Ashford really comes up trumps with a really wonderful and amazing over the top dance routine, we are also informed that Rob Ashford has worked with some amazing luminary artists such as Barbra Streisand on her famous TV Special Show “My Name Is Barbra” in 1965 which was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards in 1965, for which it won five. Rob Ashford has also worked with Diana Ross and Cher, but has also did the choreography in 1982 for the film ‘Annie’ and also worked with Bette Midler on her film ‘For The Boys.’ When Dame Julie Andrews finally meets her boss, who of course is played by the handsome rugged John Gavin, who really sends himself up real good and also appeared in the iconic wonderful film ‘Imitation of Life’ [1959] which starred Lana Turner and is one of my all-time favourite film and I equally loved the previous black-and-white version of ‘Imitation of Life’ [1934] that starred the wonderful Claudette Colbert. They both talk about Dame Julie Andrews personal life and certain tragedies and steady career and all the marvellous theatre production she has appeared in and of course the majority of her very famous icon films. They also talk about how John Gavin calls Dame Julie Andrews “John” and treats her like one of the boys, which they fell Dame Julie Andrews really carries it off really well, especially with her character Millie Dillmount. They talk extensively about the director George Roy Hill who is obsessed with aeroplanes and also had a real love of flying aeroplanes and would read up endless historic reports about the pilots in the First World War and has directed numerous films that involved dramatic plane crashes and that is why he decided to film the scene with the two fixed-wing Biplane aircrafts in the dramatic aerial display and points out the black-and-white German fixed-wing Biplane aircraft that finally introduces to Carol Channing and her over the top and loveable character “Muzzy,” and of course when the two aircraft land, we finally get to see up close Muzzy’s palatial mansion, that actual took up the whole of one set at Universal Pictures film studio and to get the look of the mansion just right, the producers went through all old catalogues that featured photographs of old mansions built in California in the 1920’s to really get the authentic look. Ehen you get to chapter 6 at around 1:22:04 where Millie Dillmount has really come out of her shell and become more assertive and Millie Dillmount gets to see Mrs. Meers stepping out of the white van because of drugging herself doing Miss Dorothy’s room and falling asleep, and the two Aussie commentators quotes a comment someone said about women in melodrama films and they said, “tear jerkers are more difficult to make than any type of movie, and critics would seem to categorise them and look down on them, it is word of mouth that is their best press agent, and it is all very sad in a way, maybe this is where we are not building great women stars for audiences today, audiences need to let their emotions out.” While listening to this audio commentary just after the INTERMISSION has finished, we open at the theatre with a vaudeville horse and dog act is on the stage, then next we get the dynamic The Zoppe Troupe acrobatic act and we get to see a cannon aimed at Dame Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore and John Gavin in their opera box who we think might be some evil person out to kill the three of them, but then we see the cannon is aimed turned towards the stage and The Zoppe Troupe performing, but suddenly we see Carol Channing is shot out of the cannon towards the stage where The Zoppe Troupe are performing and catches Carol Channing who then does some amazing stunts with The Zoppe Troupe, but when you get a close up of Carol Channing you can see wires attached to Muzzy, which of course was done for safety first, as it would have been totally devastating if some nasty accident was to happen to this actress, and of course I only noticed this time because of the audio commentary and not when I first viewed the film. We are informed that the interior of the theatre was filmed on the Universal Pictures film set and is the oldest permanent sex in existence, and was used in the 1925 film ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and also in the Alfred Hitchcock 1966 film ‘Torn Curtain’ which of course Dame Julie Andrews appeared in with Paul Newman. When you see James Fox is violently escorted out of the office building, because he was trying to get to visit Dame Julie Andrews, so instead we see the actor climbing up the side of the big building and of course director George Roy Hill wanted it to be homage to the silent actor Harold Lloyd, and of course we get some really classic comedy set pieces with Dame Julie Andrews and James Fox that we would feel right at home appearing in a classic silent comedy film like the Harold Lloyd films. As we get towards the end of the film, the two over the top camp Aussies most of the time quote lots of passages out of different autobiography books related to the Hollywood movie business in the decade of the 1960’s, and a lot of the stuff they quote was stuff I was not really interested in and one of the camp Aussie just rambled on relentless and really pissed me off and instead these two idiots should of talked more about the film ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ in general that would have been more relevant for this audio commentary. ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ had its West Coast California Premiere on the 21st March, 1967 and the stars that attended were Lucille Ball, Maureen O’Hara, Katherine Burnett and Rosalind Russell and all arrived in vintage 1920’s automobiles and after that premiere the film was a massive box office hit to the tune of $34,000,000 in the USA and $40,000,00 world-wide and was ranked the 8th highest grossing picture in 1967. As the end credits appear, the two Aussies say that it has been a thoroughly enjoyable experience doing the audio commentary for ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ and at that point the audio commentary ends, and I would say some of the comments from the two camp Aussies was quite interesting, but on the other hand at times the two camp Aussies were very annoying with their silly vacuous comments and just waffled on about nothing of interest and to me it can only really be given a three star rating.
Theatrical Trailer [1967] [1080p] [1.85:1] [2:39] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ Part One.
Theatrical Trailer [1967] [1080p] [1.37:1] [2:35] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ Part Two.
Theatrical Trailer [1968] [1080p] [1.78:1] [1:15] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD?’
Theatrical Trailer [1955] [1080p] [1.66:1] [2:42] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘DADDY LONG LEGS.’
Theatrical Trailer [1959] [1080i] [1.66:1] [1:57] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘NEVER STEAL ANYTHING SMALL.’
Theatrical Trailer [1966] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:23] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM.’
Theatrical Trailer [1969] [1080p] [1.37:1] [2:35] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘SWEET CHARITY.’
Finally, ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ is a thoroughly wonderful and joyous film! With stars like Dame Julie Andrews, Carol Channing and Beatrice Lillie, how can you lose? And the answer: You can't, because it has splendid wonderful songs, dances and sometimes a totally hilarious script blend of top entertainment. Dame Julie Andrews stated she took the role because she didn't have much longer to play ingénue parts, and Dame Julie Andrews couldn't have chosen better and Dame Julie Andrews is perfect as Millie Dillmount. ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ is a brilliant musical offering well worth watching. Whether you like it or not all depends on your taste. If you're like me and could watch and listen to Dame Julie Andrews forever, it's for you. The rest of the cast are also fantastic, especially with Mary Tyler Moore as sweet Miss Dorothy Brown and Beatrice Lillie as the hilarious Mrs. Meers, and how could we forget Carol Channing as the fabulous Muzzy Van Hossmere. Many people seem to have very negative views on this film; to others, it's great. If you're looking for deep, meaningful and heavy stuff, this probably isn't the film for you. If you're looking for light, fluffy fun, come and bask in the glory of ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ and one of my favourite running gags in the film is the lift where they had to dance to get it going. ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ is a musical comedy classic, with a very memorable and wonderful musical score. Dame Julie Andrews shows her versatility and charm, once again. Mary Tyler Moore is a special bonus in this film, and shows, once again, her fun side. Carol Channing is as charming as ever, and Beatrice Lillie is a riot! The rest of the cast is also well tuned. The film's continuity is well written and well-staged. The sets, costumes and hairstyles were painstakingly well attended to in this period piece. This is just one more charming and delightful musical of the 1960’s and alas, one of the last of its kind before the genre started to change. ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ is definitely worth adding to your Blu-ray collection, especially as it has taken all this time to get a Blu-ray release. Very Highly Recommended!
Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom
