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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025195004046
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 3048
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1942
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On her first day of work, Sue Applegate (Ginger Rogers) has to escape the clutches of a lecherous client (Robert Benchley, whose favorite line is 'Why don't you slip out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?'). Fed up with the big city, Sue decides to head home to Iowa with the precious $27.50 train fare she's kept in a sealed envelope since her arrival. The fare has gone up, however, and she is forced to pose as a 12-year-old to buy a half-price ticket. On the train, she has to dodge the suspicious conductors and bursts into the compartment of Major Phillip Kirby (Ray Milland), who falls for Sue's masquerade and harbors her for the night. The situation is further complicated by the major's fiancée (Rita Johnson) and her savvy 12-year-old sister (Diana Lynn), the only one who sees through the ruse. Add a stay at the major's academy and some escapades with young, hormone-driven cadets, and you have an enjoyable, if not quite classic, silly comedy, well paced by Billy Wilder in his first directorial effort. Rogers's real-life mother appears in a small role as Sue's mother. Rogers is only occasionally convincing as a 12-year-old, but after all she was 30 at the time. --David Horiuchi
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Academy Award® winners* Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland sparkle in this debut comedy from Academy Award®-winning** writer-director Billy Wilder. A frustrated city girl (Rogers) decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby (Milland) and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled. This 'memorable comedy' (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) is a laugh-out-loud classic for all ages!System Requirements:Running Time: 101 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/SCREWBALL COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 025195004046 Manufacturer No: 61100481
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Rating:  - THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR is a major comedy delight.
I first saw THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR in December of 1942 at the Elwood Theater in Elwood, Indiana. My delight in this movie has not dimmed over the years. I consider it one of BIlly Wilder's major achievements.
Ginger carries the disguise off quite convincingly and Diana Lynn is quite impressive in one of her first roles. Milland, Benchley and all the others contribute much to the fun. The transfer on this disc is great. I had owned an original 16mm print that went vinegar and this is a great subsitute. I paid 10 cents to see it in 1942 and now I own it for $14.95. These are great times ! ! !
Rating: - "She looks kind of filled out for twelve."
Lest we forget, Ginger Rogers did have a successful movie career without Fred Astaire. Girl even won a Best Actress Academy Award. Ginger always was a fair hand at her craft, with the acting and the hoofing. She wasn't too shabby with the comedy, either, as this film proves. In 1942, Paramount Pictures released THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR, which is delightful and was so well liked that it garnered a remake in 1955, YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG (with Jerry Lewis playing the Ginger Rogers role), which pales in comparison. Note that THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR also launched Billy Wilder's career as a Hollywood director.
This is a starring vehicle for Ginger Rogers who plays Susan Applegate. Susan, after one year and 25 jobs in New York, finally has had enough of the Big Apple and is heading back home to Iowa. At the train station, she finds that she doesn't have enough money to cover her train fare. And the bus line, she learns, is on strike. But then she stumbles on a way around: Children under twelve get their train tickets for half-price. So, a bit of tugging and adjusting and one pilfered balloon later, Susan the scalp massager turns into Su-su, a pig-tailed eleven-year-old girl (but turning twelve, next week).
On the train but fleeing the conductors, she runs into Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland), a military academy instructor and a concerned citizen, who allows the "lost little girl" to sleep in his room's bottom bunk. During a train delay, a misunderstanding involving Su-su lands ... Read More
Rating:  - Wonderful Old B & W Movie on DVD at Last
I remember watching this movie on TV and just loved it. I ordered it as soon as I saw that it was available. It was as wonderful as I remember. If you love the old B&W movies this is a must have.
Rating: - Rogers at her best
Ginger Rogers gives her best performance on film and even manages to put on her taps to steal a scene from her adolescent dance partner. What could be better than that.
Rating: - 'PLEASE STOP TELEGRAPHING MY MOTHER!'
...who, as it turns out, is played by Ginger's real life mom Lela. AND Ginger gets to dance without Fred!! Robert Benchley as a masher!!!, and the best of 'sidekick' Diana Lynn. A delight that hasn't faded in 50 years of watching [some do, not this one though]. Too bad Ray and Ginger didn't get along-and where, oh where is LADY IN THE DARK [dvd, vhs, anything!!!]
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