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The Major and the Minor (1942)

Directed by Billy Wilder

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Overview

Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn’t enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides 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