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     The Major and the Minor
1939  NR  COMEDY  1h 40min
CAST— Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn, Frankie Thomas, Jr., Charles Smith, Larry Nunn, Norma Varden
MUSIC— Robert Emmett Dolan  DIRECTOR— Billy Wilder  BASED ON— Connie Goes Home (play), by Edward Childs Carpenter

     Charming comedy from director Billy Wilder featuring Ginger Rogers in a story of dual identities. Rogers plays a small town girl going nowhere in the big city. Fed up with city life she heads for the train station with cash in hand. But a ticket costs a bit more than she had in mind (or on hand). Desperate, she decides to masquerade as a twelve year-old in order to get a discount. On the train she meets an Army major (played by Ray Milland) en route to a military academy. When she unexpectedly falls for him she follows him to the academy where she is courted (against her will) by various cadets. She must remain in disguise despite her crush, and hopefully she can survive her visit. But she’d best watch out; Milland’s scheming fiancée is on the prowl, and she’s out to get “little” Ginger. Plenty of laughs (and more than a little innuendo) guarantee a good time, though seeing the major fall for a “twelve year-old” can be a bit creepy.
OUR RATING— ***
REMADE AS— You’re Never too Young (1955)