The film opened to good reviews and an excellent box office, which only added to Andrew’s luster. In the end, all things are made right and Millie marries Jimmy and Dorothy marries Trevor, thus securing the best and happiest of endings. Unbeknownst to the two girls is that both men are the stepsons of Muzzy a millionaire who dispatched the boys to make it on their own without her assistance. Reunited, they eventually pair up with beaus Jimmy, a paper clip salesman and Trevor a company executive for the Sincere Trust Insurance Company. They never the less succeed in overcoming all obstacles as Millie manages to rescue her. Meer selling Dorothy into white slavery by a Chinese mob. Well she and Dorothy undergo a number of adventures including Mrs. Millie, in New York for three months, has shed her small town roots and has adopted a new modern sensibility, complete with bobbed hair and dresses with hemlines above the knee.

Meers, who sells young women into white slavery with a local Chinese gang. She befriends orphan Dorothy Brown who joins her living at the Priscilla Hotel for Single Young Ladies, run by the nefarious Mrs. Millie Dillmount, a flapper, is determined to secure work as a stenographer for a wealthy executive, and then charm and marry him. Our story is set in New York City during the roaring twenties. Hill brought in a fine ensemble to support Julie Andrews (Millie Dillmount), which included Mary Tyler Moore (Dorothy Brown), James Fox (Jimmy Smith), John Gavin (Trevor Graydon), Carol Channing (Muzzy van Hossmere) and Beatrice Lillie (Mrs. Richard Morris was hired to write the screenplay and George Roy Hill tasked with directing the film. Universal Studios and producer Ross Hunter sought to capitalize on her popularity and so decided to adapt the British musical “Chrysanthemum” (1956) for her next musical. Julie Andrews was the toast of Hollywood in the 1960s and her success in Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1966) made her the most popular and highest paid actress of the day.

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