Movielogr

Rating: 7.5 stars

Tags

TCM military academy train

All movies seen on 11/05/2016

View on: IMDb | TMDb

The Major and the Minor (1942)

Directed by Billy Wilder

Comedy | Romance

Overview

Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn’t enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the “child” under his wing.

Rated NR | Length 100 minutes

Actors

Ginger Rogers | Ray Milland | Rita Johnson | Robert Benchley | Diana Lynn | Edward Fielding | Frankie Thomas | Raymond Roe | Charles Smith | Larry Nunn | Billy Dawson | Lela Rogers | Aldrich Bowker | Boyd Irwin | Byron Shores | Richard Fiske | Norma Varden | Gretl Dupont | George Anderson | Stanley Andrews | Vangie Beilby | Marie Blake | John Bogden | Carl R. Botefuhr | Ralph Brooks | Dick Chandlee | Bill Clauson | Ethel Clayton | James Conaty | Stanley Desmond | Tom Dugan | Jay Eaton | Mary Field | Bess Flowers | Ralph Gilliam | Kenneth Grant | Lynda Grey | Bradley Hail | Sam Harris | Dell Henderson | Carlotta Jelm | Payne B. Johnson | Alice Keating | Milton Kibbee | Stephen Kirchner | Carl M. Leviness | Jack Lindquist | Leota Lorraine | Ken Lundy | David McKim | Freddie Mercer | Edmund Mortimer | William Newell | Buster Nichols | Billy O'Kelly | Emory Parnell | Edward Peil Sr. | Jim Pilcher | Billy Ray | Shirley Jean Rickert | William Roy | Bert Stevens | Archie Twitchell | Gloria Williams | Don Wilmot | Will Wright

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Didn’t realize this was a Billy Wilder flick and his first feature at that. Fairly absurd plot as I cannot imagine anyone believing that a 30 year old woman could pass for a 12 year old girl but it does make for some good comedy esp. being set at a military academy. All the boys hitting on her is good stuff. Ginger Rogers is really great here too.

Comments