Helen Twelvetrees martyrs and mopes through a couple of decades of men in this creaky melodrama. Helped immeasurably by the presence of two gold digger bisexuals played by Lilyan Tashman and Joan Blondell along with the sophisticated depravity of John Halliday it is a well mounted picture that unashamedly injects a fashion show for the ladies from end to end. With clothes to admire and men to despise Millie probably did not need a free china night to pack them in at the Bijou.
Popular Millie runs off with Jack Maitland to marry. She gives birth and he's wandering in no time. The marriage ends and she falls for a reporter, no better than Maitland and with less money. A long time pursuer (Halliday) gives up on Millie and instead devotes his seductive attentions to her teenage daughter.
Millie is a misandrist field day with nearly every male a drunk, a cheat or both and both Tashman and Blondell providing sardonic commentary whether in bed together or draped in elaborate finery reinforce it with their terse, comic insight. Halliday simply oozes unctuous respectability, his perverse voyeurism drawing him to a Sunday service to ogle Millie's teen.
The film ultimately implodes in the overwrought court scene finale but not before an elaborate fashion show and some entertaining cynical girl talk from Tashman and Blondell that carry MIllie up until that point.
Popular Millie runs off with Jack Maitland to marry. She gives birth and he's wandering in no time. The marriage ends and she falls for a reporter, no better than Maitland and with less money. A long time pursuer (Halliday) gives up on Millie and instead devotes his seductive attentions to her teenage daughter.
Millie is a misandrist field day with nearly every male a drunk, a cheat or both and both Tashman and Blondell providing sardonic commentary whether in bed together or draped in elaborate finery reinforce it with their terse, comic insight. Halliday simply oozes unctuous respectability, his perverse voyeurism drawing him to a Sunday service to ogle Millie's teen.
The film ultimately implodes in the overwrought court scene finale but not before an elaborate fashion show and some entertaining cynical girl talk from Tashman and Blondell that carry MIllie up until that point.