History Film / ThoroughlyModernMillie

* TheCasanova: Jimmy.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: [[InUniverse Done intentionally]]. Mrs. Meers does this when she gets frustrated.

* ShoutOut: Jimmy climbing the building up to Millie's office is a nod to silent comedies, particularly [[Creator/HaroldLloyd Harold Lloyd's]] ''Film/SafetyLast'' Jimmy's general look, with the round glasses, is also likely modeled on Lloyd.

A 1967 musical comedy directed by George Roy Hill, ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' later [[ScreenToStageAdaptation became a stage musical]] in 2002. Notably, the film version, which starred Julie Andrews as the titular Millie, was the source of composer [[ElmerBernstein Elmer Bernstein's]] only AcademyAward.

* TheFlapper

A 1967 musical comedy directed by George Roy Hill, ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' later became a stage musical in 2002. Notably, the film version, which starred Julie Andrews as the titular Millie, was the source of composer [[ElmerBernstein Elmer Bernstein's]] only AcademyAward.

The film thrives on MetaHumor, most notably the "break" halfway through in which literally nothing happens for a few minutes. It's an odd combination of [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] comedy and [[TheSixties 1960s]] sensibilities, swerving between parody and straight-up comedy.

Since there are substantial differences between the original film and the stage version, they have been listed in separate folders.

* BetaCouple: [[spoiler: Dorothy and Trevor]]. Subverted in the stage version where it looks like they'll hook up but [[spoiler: Dorothy hooks up with one of ThoseTwoGuys instead]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Bun Foo and Ching Ho. In a subversion Ching Ho ends up affecting the plot pretty heavily on his own.

The film thrives on MetaHumor, most notably the "break" halfway through in which literally nothing happens for a few minutes. It's an odd combination of 1920's comedy and 1960's sensibilities, swerving between parody and straight-up comedy.

* AltoVillainess: Mrs. Meers, in the stage show.

* BookEnds: The musical ends with a hopeful-looking girl who walks onto center stage carrying a suitcase, much like Millie did at the start.
* TheCasanova: Jimmy in the stage show.

* IAmSong: In addition to the title number, the ScreenToStageAdaptation adds "Not for the Life of Me".

-->'''Trevor:''' Bolt the door, take off your things and lets have a test!\\

* IWantSong: this is ZigZagged in the stage version, with the song "How the Other Half Lives." Millie wants to be rich, and Miss Dorothy [[SlummingIt wants to be poor]]. See also "Gimme Gimme," another stage version song.

* LampshadeHanging: Done a lot in the movies, in the form of silent movie dialogue cards. Usually about [[RunningGag how well rich people can wear beads.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: The same few bars of music crop up each time Mrs. Meers tries something "evil" in the musical.
** In the movie, a heroic fanfare is heard every time Trevor Graydon is shown parked outside the Priscilla Hotel while Millie and Jimmy are investigating Miss Dorothy's disappearance ... [[spoiler:despite the fact that he's been shot with a tranquilizer dart and is completely unconscious.]]

-->'''Ruth:''' ''[Rapid fire]'' Well, hello! You're new. You an actress? I'm an actress, but we couldn't be more different, so well never be up for the same part, which is a good thing, don'cha think? Ruth Devereaux-my stage name, anyway.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: In the stage version, it turns out that [[spoiler:Bun Foo can speak English a ''lot'' better than he lets on. So when Mrs. Meers mocks his apparent inability to understand her and gloats about how she'll never save his mother from Hong Kong, he's more than happy later to testify to the crimes she committed.]]

* PairTheSpares: Parodied in the stage show, when [[spoiler:Trevor is seemingly the only one left without a love interest...and laments the loss of Millie, who was a fantastic secretary. Bun Foo reveals that he's a great typist, and the two go off together.]]
* PatterSong: The Speed test.

* PluckyGirl: Millie, especially in the stage version. In case you couldn't tell from the opening number, she drives it home in the "Not for the Life of Me" tag by turning the DarkReprise into TriumphantReprise.

* SlapSlapKiss
* SleepingWithTheBoss: This is the standard way to land a husband it seems(give or take actual sex): you meet a successful man by becoming his secretary, then he falls in love with you and you get married.
* SlummingIt: Miss Dorothy
* SmokingIsGlamorous: In the film, Millie sees some Chinese prostitutes doing this, and fails to mimic them properly. This leads to her accidentally [[SpannerInTheWorks blowing up the Chinese Opium Den]] and saving the day.

* SouthernBelle: Miss Dorothy, depending on how she is played.
* TheStinger: At the end of the stage show, Bun Foo and Ching Ho's mother returns to them.

* WorkOffTheDebt: Jimmy purposefully neglects to pay for dinner to wash dishes with Millie. This is rather moot when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Jimmy is absurdly rich]].

* [[spoiler:SecretlyWealthy: It's the TwistEnding.]]

* Socialite: Muzzy van Hossmere.

** In the movie, a heroic fanfare is heard every time Trevor Graydon is shown parked outside the Priscilla Hotel while Millie and Jimmy are investigating Miss Dorothy's appearance ... [[spoiler:despite the fact that he's been shot with a tranquilizer dart and is completely unconscious.]]

* IWantSong: this is ZigZagged in the stage version, with the song "How the Other Half Lives." Millie wants to be rich, and Miss Dorothy [[SlummingIt wants to be poor]]. See also gimme gimme, another stage version song.

* TheStinger: At the end, Bun Foo and Ching Ho's mother returns to them.

* MeLoveYouLongTime: [[GenderInvertedTrope gender inverted]] in the stage version.

* SecretlyWealthy: It's the TwistEnding.

* IncestIsRelative: Subverted. Millie seems to think that [[spoiler: Jimmy is cheating on her with Mrs. Dorothy. She's wrong, of course,]] but it's [[FridgeLogic made rather disturbing after]] TheReveal shows them to be siblings.

* SouthernBelle: Miss dorothy, depending on how she is played.

The film thrives on MetaHumour, most notably the "break" halfway through in which literally nothing happens for a few minutes. It's an odd combination of 1920's comedy and 1960's sensibilities, swerving between parody and straight-up comedy.

A "thoroughly modern girl" from Kansas, Millie Dillmount aspires to be the stenographer, and then the wife, of a wealthy man. After remaking her image, she meets Miss Dorothy Brown at the Priscilla Hotel, which is headed by a Mrs. Meers. She takes a liking to salesman Jimmy, but true to her ambition, she sets her sights on rich Trevor Graydon. Things get complicated for all when it's revealed that the hotel is a front for a White Slavery ring, and that Miss Dorothy is their latest target.

* {{Casanova}}: Jimmy in the stage show.