Millie
About Millie
Millie Blake divorces unfaithful Jack Maitland and leaves their daughter Connie with him and his mother while she rises at a hotel. She refuses banker Jimmy Damier, keeps reporter Tommy Rock, and then finds Tommy cheating too. Years later Damier takes teenage Connie to a lodge. Millie goes there with a gun and kills him. At the trial she tries to keep Connie's name out and says she does not remember why she fired.
Cast & crew
More about Millie
John Francis Dillon directed, from a script by Charles Kenyon and Ralph Morgan based on Donald Henderson Clarke's novel. Charles R. Rogers produced the independent picture, which RKO released after buying Pathé Exchange. Ernest Haller photographed it and Arthur Lange composed the music; Wikidata lists 85 minutes and 1931.
Themes
Look
Ernest Haller photographed the pre-Code drama.
Music
Arthur Lange composed the music.
Notes
- Helen Twelvetrees plays Millie. Robert Ames, James Hall, John Halliday, Joan Blondell, and Anita Louise are billed.
- Millie's friends later put her real motive, protecting Connie, in front of the jury. The extract does not state the verdict.
- Wikipedia calls the role one of Twelvetrees's best.
Scenes
- Millie shoots Damier at the remote lodge.
- She tells the court another woman ran out and that she did not see who.
Influenced by
- Donald Henderson Clarke's novel Millie
Also available
- Internet Archive (Millie1931RadioPictures)
- Wikimedia Commons (Millie (1931) by John Francis Dillon.webm)
