
Singin' in the Rain(1952)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.


“Julie as you love her... in the happiest motion picture hit of the year!”
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"

Julie Andrews
Millie Dillmount

James Fox
Jimmy Smith

Mary Tyler Moore
Miss Dorothy Brown

Carol Channing
Muzzy Van Hossmere

John Gavin
Trevor Graydon

Jack Soo
Oriental #1

Pat Morita
Oriental #2

Philip Ahn
Tea

Anthony Dexter
Juarez

Beatrice Lillie
Mrs. Meers
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a comedy, music, romance film released in 1967 exploring themes of hotel, love, pursuit, flapper, jazz age, stenographer. Directed by George Roy Hill, it stars Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore. Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"
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