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Summary: Forgotten classic
Comment: Made in more innocent times, they just can't make movies like this anymore. The story is a lot of fun and Ginger Rogers is in top form, even though she doesn't dance much. It's a great showcase for her acting ability - not to mention the drool worthy Ray Milland.
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Summary: Major and The Minor Great Movie ...Needs to be Restored
Comment: Major and The Miner is a Classic ...But The movie needs to be Digitally Remastered in the video department Very Grainy ...Sound is great
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Summary: "You know Su-Su, you're a very peculiar child."
Comment: Beautiful Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) is tired of New York where she constantly has to compromise her morality just to get along. She decides to return home and goes to the train station to purchase a ticket. Unfortunately, the rates have gone up. Angry but not beaten, she dons a costume very much like that of a little girl and convinces an innocent bystander to buy her a half fare ticket. Off she goes, but the conductor isn't convinced she's under twelve. She escapes into a man's quarters, Major Philip Kirby's (Ray Milland), and he buys her story about being a little girl. He offers to take care of her for the rest of the trip, and does so well that he escorts her to the military academy for the weekend before she heads home. In the process, she falls for him, but he's engaged.
A delightful comedy, The Major and the Minor is fun from start to finish. It pre-dates films like Too Young to Kiss with the same frivolous story theme and is just as fun. It is also aided by the direction of Billy Wilder in his first American job. He also helped write the script, so his personal polish is apparent on a great deal of the film. Rogers is the real standout though, at the height of her fame. She is very beautiful and certainly convincing both as a young girl and a luscious woman, plus her sense of comedy is excellent.
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Summary: This Classic Comedy Would Never Be Made Today
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THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR (1942) marked the directing debut of Billy Wilder, who co-wrote the script with Charles Brackett.
Entertaining, though dated, this is a strange film that probably could not be made today.
Ginger Rogers stars as a young woman, defeated by life in New York City, who decides to return to her small home town in Ohio. Unfortunately, the train fare has gone up in price, thus she disguises herself as a 12-year-old girl, so that she can ride on a half-fare ticket.
Pursued by a suspicious conductor, Rogers takes refuge in Army major Ray Milland's compartment. He takes her to be a youngster.
Complications arise when Milland's fiancee (Rita Johnson) discovers Ray and Ginger together on the train. This results in Rogers having to visit the boys' military academy where Milland teaches, in order for him to get out of trouble with Rita and the school's board of directors.
Over the next 2-3 days at the school, Rogers and Milland discover their mutual attraction.
The stars of THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR are always a pleasure to watch, as is co-star Robert Benchley, but to truly enjoy this movie you have to be able to take "on faith" that Milland and the other characters believe that Rogers is a 12-year-old.
Well, maybe if you squint.
In addition, assuming that Milland does believe Rogers is 12, isn't it a bit creepy that he's attracted to her?
© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
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Summary: I went to a masquerade, darling.
Comment: To begin with this is one of my all time favorite films, classic, adorable and always entertaining time and time again.
It's easy to fall into the story, Ginger Rogers is just delightful as Susan Applegate and Ray Milland is charming as 'Uncle Phillip'. (I could only wish to be so lucky with the strangers I encounter whilst traveling)
The strange and unusual situation is just hilarious(and perhaps at times a bit creepy? Though obviously I seem to like it!) Watching 'little sue-sue' court hoards of underage boys kills me every-time, not to mention how easy it is to forget that little sue-sue is indeed Ginger Rogers.
Although I wish the ending had just a bit more, well explaining, it's a perfect piece of Classic 40's cinema.
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