The Major and the Minor

this reeeeeally shouldn't work and it just BARELY does because billy wilder is a genius, also because ray milland is adorable and his only personality traits are: - wants to fight nazis - good with children - blind in one eye - confused

phoebe 💫

This film is like Ginger Rogers’s own self-contained version of that “no one has this range” meme floating around Twitter right now. Also- the ending of this film is one of the cutest things in the world.

Bre

Billy Wilder’s first Hollywood directorial outing - “The Major and the Minor” - has the same fleet footing of his better-known efforts. And who could ask for anything more, when it’s Ginger Rogers doing the deft comedic dance?  By the time of “Major,” Wilder and co-writer…

theriverjordan

Major Kirby: "You know Susu, you're a very peculiar child." Susan Applegate: "You bet I am." Mrs. Applegate: "What DID happen between New York and Stevenson?" Susan Applegate: "I went to a masquerade, darling." Mrs. Applegate: "Are you crazy?" Susan Applegate: "No, it's…

mandijo

100-word review: Susan disguises as a child to travel half fare. Caught out by conductors, she hides in the naive Major Philip's compartment. Little Sue Sue doesn't want to hide her grown-up feeling for the handsome Major though. This contentious story is material Wilder…

Deckk

While posing as a “minor” to travel cheaply, a young woman (Ginger Rogers) runs into an army Major (Ray Milland), causing a host of complications at the military school he teaches at. For his directorial debut Billy Wilder decided to create the most commercial movie he…

Josh Gillam

This is such a strange yet delightful film! Susan Applegate decides to leave New York and head back home to Iowa but can't afford a train ticket due to the rise in costs. She sees a family behind her buy tickets at a cheaper price for the children. Susan then dresses like a…

DoodleBarb🎀

This is one of the cutest movies that I've seen in a long time. It made me so happy and I just want to re-watch it again and again. It's a little ridiculous, of course, because Ginger Rogers is pretending to be a 12 year old, but she is a comedic genius who makes…

Sara Clements

I guess we all respond to inflation in different ways, but Ginger Rogers disguising herself as a 12-year-old to bag a half-price rail fare takes some beating. Fortunately, The Major and the Minor has enough charm and energy to stop me asking too many awkward questions, even…

Richard