Thoroughly Modern Millie

The title song for the 1967 Universal musical starring Julie Andrews earned Cahn and Van Heusen an Academy Award nomination. The song’s knowing, affectionate send-up of 1920s modernity — bobbed hair, short skirts, and jazz — gave Andrews one of her most purely fun moments on film.

A late-career highlight for Cahn and Van Heusen, the song’s exuberant energy belying the fact that it was written by two men in their fifties looking back at an era they had lived through as children.