Millie (1931)Helen Twelvetrees(spoilers)

The German film Mazurka (1935) has to be sort of a remake of 'Millie'.

Millie, Helen Twelvetrees, starts off as a swept-off-her-feet kid eloping with handsome and ambitious Jack Maitland, James Hall. Her shaking virgin-wedding night-do we have to go to bed?- scene is very funny, one of the best of its kind on old film.

Ensconced in Westchester County outside NYC, Jack makes big bucks and Millie, now three years on and with a little girl, is neglected, bored and angry at her absent husband. A reunion with two girlfriends at a cabaret brings an encounter with an errant Jack and his foul-mouthed paramour who gets a sock in the jaw from Millie.

Divorced and working in New York City, Millie leads a socially active life with fast-track friends and wild parties. Reflecting the hesitancy of many directors and script writers at the time it's never really clear if Millie goes beyond gay partying to hop into the sack with rabidly panting, pursuing men, some already married.

Millie has one true male admirer, a reporter named Tommy, played by Robert Ames. A drunken twit tells Millie he's fooling around with another woman and she believes her, ending the best relationship she's had. Tommy's a sad case.

The story turns melodramatic when an older man-about-Manhattan, long obsessed with Millie, shows an unhealthy interest in her now gorgeous teenage daughter, Connie. Pretends to be the daughter's friend, but he has lecherous designs on her. Millie promises him that if he touches the girl, she'll kill him. Take a wild guess what happens next!

(spoilers)The difference in the films:

In 'Millie', she's become aware that her old friend has been entertaining her daughter as if an uncle through his close friendship with her paternal grandparents ,who she lives with. He offers to drive the girl back school but instead takes her to his cabin & plies her with drink & gives her a fancy robe of which he has many. Unknown to him, his driver calls her mother.She rushes to the place finds her daughter after being told she's not there. She angrily confronts the man & shoots him. At the trial she won't give any info to help her case nor will she say if anyone else was there. All of her friends follow her lead and won't talk.She's about to be convicted of murder but Tommy ,who still loves herbrings her daughter into court and she tells the whole story & saves her mother.