ABSTRACT
The 1967 film, Thoroughly Modern Millie, set a thoroughly "modern" objective claimed to be symptomatic of the 1920s Americana, marrying for money and not love, in the context of a cultural shift evident in the new era of post-industrialization. This newfangled, modern attempt to seize control of one's life goes comically awry as wealth, power, money, and gender roles are multiply mixed up in a carnivalesque, anything-goes sort of way. Similarly, Bill Doll set a thoroughly post-modern set of concepts and processes in a context of a newly changing cultural context of the 1980s and 1990s. The film begins in 1922 New York, with flapper Millie Dillmount determined to find work as a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and then marry him — a "thoroughly modern" goal. Millie befriends the sweet yet naive Miss Dorothy Brown as the latter checks into the Priscilla Hotel.
