Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.
Marie Astaire
- Bobby
- (uncredited)
Hooper Atchley
- District Attorney Sanders
- (uncredited)
Max Barwyn
- Max - Head Waiter
- (uncredited)
Louise Beavers
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
- Helen and Angie's Landlady
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaAnita Louise plays a 16-year-old in the film; she had actually just turned 16 when the film was released.
- GoofsThe beginning of the film is supposed to be set around 1914 and continues through the next 17 years until 1931, but the females of the cast wear strictly 1931 fashions all the way through. Likewise, the popular music played at the night club, as well as the interior design, is also strictly 1931, regardless of the year it's taking place.
- Quotes
Connie Maitland: Oh! Oh! It tickles my nose!
[giggles]
Jimmy Damier: Does it?
Connie Maitland: I like it.
Jimmy Damier: Do you? Well, have some more.
- ConnectionsEdited into Your Afternoon Movie: Millie (2022)
- SoundtracksMillie
(1931) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Nacio Herb Brown
Played during the opening credits and at the end
Played by a band at a nightclub and sung by an unidentified trio
Reprised as dance music and as background music often
Featured review
The Trials and Tribulations of a Red-Headed Woman
Soap Opera following the exploits of Millie Blake (Helen Twelvetrees) and her "love parade" of heels. This film spans nearly twenty years as we watch our Millie go from jittery young girl scared to face her honeymoon bed (as her new hubby presses "Are you sleepy yet?"), to rich, bored, and lonesome wife and mother, to divorcée working the counter of a cigar stand fending off "offers" from men, to mother who will stop at nothing to help save her teenage daughter's virtue. Millie soon realizes that "all men are tramps" - and it's true, at least in her world - all the men in this film are just complete womanizing cads, and one man goes even further than that when he attempts to pursue a very innocent sixteen year old girl (who calls him "Uncle"), rubbing her ankles, ladling her with "cider", and getting her to put on one of his assortment of "Mandarin Coats".
This pre-code film has it all - from a montage of a day at Coney Island to cat fights to divorce to bootleg cocktail parties to two blondes in negligees sharing a double bed all the way to the schemes of a lecher. It is really fun to watch the scenes with Millie's two blonde gal pals, childhood friend Angie and her bed friend Helen, a feisty, tough, wisecracking sort of gal - these two women run through men, booze, and outlandish fur, satin, and chiffon gowns like water. There is a nice musical number in one nightclub scene, a rendition of "Millie, the Red Head". This film actually becomes quite serious in later scenes, bringing it to a satisfying climax. Very good.
This pre-code film has it all - from a montage of a day at Coney Island to cat fights to divorce to bootleg cocktail parties to two blondes in negligees sharing a double bed all the way to the schemes of a lecher. It is really fun to watch the scenes with Millie's two blonde gal pals, childhood friend Angie and her bed friend Helen, a feisty, tough, wisecracking sort of gal - these two women run through men, booze, and outlandish fur, satin, and chiffon gowns like water. There is a nice musical number in one nightclub scene, a rendition of "Millie, the Red Head". This film actually becomes quite serious in later scenes, bringing it to a satisfying climax. Very good.
- movingpicturegal
- Jul 16, 2006
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Милли
- Filming locations
- Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA(amusement park montage, featuring Luna Park)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
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