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Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
In producer Ross Hunter's and director George Roy
Hill's overlong flapper-era musical comedy spoof starring Julie Andrews
and Mary Tyler Moore:
- during the opening credits,
the title character - naive young Millie (Julie Andrews) who 'modernized'
herself after noticing that she was woefully out-dated - she entered
the Madcap Beauty Spot - and with a short bob haircut and a new
dress style was transformed into a NY 'Roaring 20's' "modern" flapper;
in the background on the soundtrack, the Oscar-nominated, title
song Thoroughly Modern Millie (pictured twice) was sung
by Julie Andrews
- the scene-stealing character of wealthy, madcap and
outlandish widow Muzzy Van Hossmere (Oscar-nominated Carol Channing)
- her show-stopping performance of "Jazz Baby" -
including her playing of many musical instruments (a trumpet, banjo,
clarinet - and a large bass saxophone) followed by her dancing atop
a xylophone
- her flying stunts in a biplane with a German World
War I ace, and acrobatics while singing "First Date (Do It Again!)" after
being fired out of a cannon and spouting her favorite exclamation:
"Raspberries!" while in mid-air
- her dispatching of white slavers using tricks she
learned from a heavyweight boxer
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