Millie Dillmount

Emillia Beatrice "Millie" Smith(née Dillmount' ): Is the main character of the musical  Thoroughly Modern Millie

Biography
Born in Kansas, Millie Dillmount moves to the New York city in 1922. She moves to New York city for a new start and adventure. She's 19 years of age and has several siblings back in Kansas.

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She is instantly robbed when she "modernizes" herself in New York. To get some one's attention about the robbery she ends up tripping a man, who she later befriends. The man later points her in the direction of a renting hotel. There she meets orphaned girls of 18 years+. She becomes a resident of the Hotel Prescilla. Millie has a hard time getting a job. She wasn't able to pay her rent in time. When Millie can't afford to pay her rent to her landlady, she ends up sharing her apartment with a come of age orphan named Dorothy, who she becomes close to. So while Millie continues to look for work, Dorothy pays the rent. Millie takes up a job of typing, only because she plans to marry a rich boss.

Millie plans to marry for money over marrying for love. The boss of her job is Mr.Graydon. Mr.Graydon takes a liking to Millie instantly, and hires her. Millie's plans to marry her rich boss fail when Mr. Graydon takes great romantic interest in Miss Dorothy, who comes around to visit Millie. Meanwhile two undercover cops take up a new case of investigating a hotel for orphans, that is involved in white slavery. The cops end up being hired by the Hotel owner as laundry workers, when they go under cover as illegal immigrants from China. Millie runs into the man she tripped throughout the story, Jimmy Smith, continuously, falling deeper into love with him each time. When Miss Dorothy goes missing after a date with Mr.Graydon, Millie teams up with her boss and Jimmy to figure out if her disappearance connects the Hotel Priscilla. Using Millie's befriended nightclub singer, Muzzy van Hossmere, as bait, the three solve the mystery of the Missing Dorothy. Jimmy later reveals to Millie,that he's the heir to a multimillionaire business, and proposes to her. Dorothy reveals that she's Jimmy's sister. Muzzy turns out to be the siblings's widowed stepmother. In the end Miss Dorothy marries one of the undercover cops, who took great steps in protecting her. Millie becomes Dorothy's sister-in-law through Jimmy. And in some cases, Mr.Graydon starts dating the other undercover cop, who turns out to be a woman dressed as a male Chinese immigrant.

Trivia

 * She meets Jimmy by tripping him
 * In the end, Millie technically is working for Jimmy, since her work(Sincere Trust) is owned by Jimmy's father's company