“Thoroughly Modern Millie” — Julie Andrews

Over the weekend I was reminded about Julie Andrews’ song “Thoroughly Modern Millie”, from the film of the same name.

In case you don’t know, the film “Thoroughly Modern Millie” is the story of a country ingénue back in the 1920s who comes to the big city determined to live life as a modern woman, rather than being trapped for evermore in her small town life.

The big city is an impossibly heady proposition for young Millie who has probably been thinking and dreaming about the moment she steps off the train in Grand Central Station…or some such place…since she was a little girl. After dreaming about living the fabulously glamorous big city life since she was a little girl, Millie had finally arrived in the big city she’d always dreamed of.

Of course, this was the 1920s, so our small town girl’s view of what life was like in the big city wasn’t as well developed as it might be for the Instagram generation.

She trains as a stenographer to find a job…very daring for a woman in the 1920s…so she can track down a boss who might be the eligible bachelor she always imagined would fall in love with her.

Not being as sophisticated as her big city sisters, misunderstanding piles upon misunderstanding in the course of her search for suitable husband material, with amusing, if slightly predictable, results.

“Thoroughly Modern Millie” also responsible for a magical cinema moment…at least for people like me who enjoy that sort…