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Release Date: 1942

Cast: Byron Shores, Robert Benchley, Ginger Rogers, Boyd Irwin, Aldrich Bowker, Edward Fielding, Rita Johnson, Frankie Thomas, Larry Nunn, Ray Milland, Billy Dawson, Charles Smith ...MORE

Cast: Byron Shores, Robert Benchley, Ginger Rogers, Boyd Irwin, Aldrich Bowker, Edward Fielding, Rita Johnson, Frankie Thomas, Larry Nunn, Ray Milland, Billy Dawson, Charles Smith, Raymond Roe, Lela E. Rogers, Diana Lynn ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Sex comedy, Comedy, Farce, Comedy of Errors, Romance Film

The Major and the Minor is a 1942 American comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. It was the first American film directed by Billy Wilder, and launched his "incomparable" directing career. The screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett is based on the play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter. After her client Albert Osborne (Robert Benchley) makes a pass at her, Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) quits her job as a scalp massager for the Revigorous System and decides to leave New York City and return home to Stevenson, Iowa. Upon arriving at the train station, she... MORE

The Major and the Minor is a 1942 American comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. It was the first American film directed by Billy Wilder, and launched his "incomparable" directing career. The screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett is based on the play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter. After her client Albert Osborne (Robert Benchley) makes a pass at her, Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) quits her job as a scalp massager for the Revigorous System and decides to leave New York City and return home to Stevenson, Iowa. Upon arriving at the train station, she discovers she has only enough money to cover a child's fare, so she disguises herself as a twelve-year-old girl named Su-Su. When a suspicious conductor catches her smoking, Su-Su takes refuge in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland) who, believing she is a frightened child, agrees to let her stay with him until they reach his stop. When the train is detained by flooding on the tracks, Philip's fiancée Pamela Hill (Rita Johnson) and her father, his commanding officer at the military academy where he teaches, drive to meet him. Pamela boards the train and finds Su-Su sleeping in the lower LESS