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Julie Andrews has hand signed in blue ink this copy of the original soundtrack album “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Item includes the original 8 page insert. Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss. The soundtrack interpolates new tunes by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn with standard songs from the 1910s and 1920s, including “Baby Face” and “Jazz Baby.” For use of the latter, the producers had to acquire the rights from General Mills, which had used the melody with various lyrics to promote Wheaties for more than forty years. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and five Golden Globes. It was also the tenth highest grossing film of 1967. The film’s soundtrack was released by Decca Records. Songs include the title tune and “The Tapioca” by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn; “Jimmy” by Jay Thompson; “Jazz Baby” by M.K. Jerome and Blanche Merrill; “Jewish Wedding Song (Trinkt le Chaim)” by Sylvia Neufeld; “Poor Butterfly” by John Raymond Hubbell and John Golden; “Rose of Washington Square” by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley; “Baby Face” by Harry Akst and Benny Davis; and “Do It Again” by George Gershwin and Buddy G. DeSylva. Also heard in the film as an underscore are “Stumbling” by Zez Confrey; “With Plenty of Money and You” by Harry Warren; and “Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah by Georg Friedrich Händel. Elmer Bernstein composed the incidental score, for which he won his only Academy Award. (Ironically, none of his music for this film has ever been released.) The songs were arranged and conducted by André Previn.