Millie is a Pre-Code

Pre-Code

Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by John Francis Dillon

John Francis Dillon (director)

John Francis Dillon was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 130 films between 1914 and 1934...

 and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the novel by Donald Henderson Clarke

Donald Henderson Clarke

Donald Henderson Clarke was an American writer and journalist, known for his romantic novels, mystery fiction, and screenplays. Clarke was born on August 24, 1887 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and died March 27, 1958 in Delray Beach, Florida Many of his screenplays were directed by John...

, the movie stars Helen Twelvetrees

Helen Twelvetrees

Helen Twelvetrees was an American stage and screen performer, considered a top female star in the early days of sound films.- Early life and career :...

, Lilyan Tashman

Lilyan Tashman

Lilyan Tashman was a Brooklyn-born Jewish American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the bitchy 'other woman'...

, James Hall

James Hall (actor)

James Hall was an American film actor. Born James E. Brown in Dallas, Texas, Hall began his film career during the silent film era. He made his sound film debut in the 1929 film The Canary Murder Case, opposite William Powell and Louise Brooks. In 1930, Hall co-starred in Howard Hughes' epic film...

, and Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell

Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell.After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career...

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Plot

Millie is a young woman who leaves her child to live with her philandering ex-husband, but later becomes an independent woman who gets involved with several married men. After her friends pursue her to become one, Millie changes into a golddigger. She is let down by men yet again when it becomes clear her boyfriend is cheating on her.

Years pass by and Millie now is a tough woman who has closed love out of her life. She discovers her former admirer Jimmy is now out to get a relationship with her 17-year old daughter Connie. Millie shoots and kills him and must face the jury.

Lawyer Gabriele Law decides that Millie should only be charged with community service as Jimmy was a horrific fool. However, Christopher, her husband, decides to leave her on the motive that she saved a murderer from prison. The story leads on from here in a series of mischievous events.

Cast

• Helen Twelvetrees
  Helen Twelvetrees
  Helen Twelvetrees was an American stage and screen performer, considered a top female star in the early days of sound films.- Early life and career :...
  
   as Millie Blake Maitland
• Lilyan Tashman
  Lilyan Tashman
  Lilyan Tashman was a Brooklyn-born Jewish American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the bitchy 'other woman'...
  
   as Helen Riley
• Robert Ames
  Robert Ames
  Robert Downing Ames was an American stage and film actor whose career was cut short by his untimely death at age 42.-Birth:Robert Ames was born on March 23, 1889 at Hartford, Connecticut, wher his father, Louis Mason Ames, was employed as an accountant for an insurance company and his mother, Mary...
  
   as Tommy Rock
• James Hall
  James Hall
  -Actors, Entertainment, Broadcasting:* James Hall , American actor* Jamie Hall , Canadian TV producer-Authors:* James Hall , American academic* James Baker Hall , American author...
  
   as Jack Maitland
• John Halliday
  John Halliday
  John Halliday was an American actor of stage and screen, who often played suave aristocrats and foreigners....
  
   as Jimmy Damier
• Joan Blondell
  Joan Blondell
  Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell.After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career...
  
   as Angie Wickerstaff
• Anita Louise
  Anita Louise
  -Life and career:Born Anita Louise Fremault in New York, New York, she made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films...
  
   as Connie Maitland
• Edmund Breese
  Edmund Breese
  Edmund Breese was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo , The Lion and the Mouse with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree with Helen Ware, The...
  
   as Bob O'Fallon
• Frank McHugh
  Frank McHugh
  Francis Curray "Frank" McHugh was an American film and television actor.Born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and as a young child he performed on stage...
  
   as Johnny Holmes
• Charlotte Walker
  Charlotte Walker (actress)
  Charlotte Walker was a Broadway theater actress from Galveston, Texas. She was the mother of character actress Sara Haden-Stage Actress:...
  
   as Mrs Maitland
• Franklin Parker as Spring
• Charles Delaney as Mike
• Harry Stubbs as Mark Marks