Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ginger Rogers | ... | Susan Applegate | |
Ray Milland | ... | Major Philip Kirby | |
Rita Johnson | ... | Pamela Hill | |
Robert Benchley | ... | Albert Osborne | |
Diana Lynn | ... | Lucy Hill | |
Edward Fielding | ... | Colonel Oliver Slater Hill | |
Frankie Thomas | ... | Cadet Osborne | |
Raymond Roe | ... | Cadet Anthony Wigton Jr. | |
Charles Smith | ... | Cadet Korner | |
Larry Nunn | ... | Cadet Babcock | |
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Billy Dawson | ... | Cadet Miller |
Lela E. Rogers | ... | Mrs. Applegate (as Lela Rogers) | |
Aldrich Bowker | ... | Reverend Doyle | |
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Boyd Irwin | ... | Major Griscom |
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Byron Shores | ... | Captain Durand |
New York working girl Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Philip Kirby, an Army major teaching at a military school. Written by Jack McKillop <jem3@donuts0.bellcore.com>
I wish I understood how reviews are selected to be displayed as the IMDb-approved review. The current one for "The Major and the Minor" is a major disgrace. The movie article the little girl picks up at Penn Station is NOT "Why I Hit Women," by Charles Boyer, it is "Why I Hate Women." It's a joke-- obviously too subtle for some-- because Charles Boyer is of course one of the great lovers of the screen, one everyone would have known when this film was released in 1941. It's similar to when Ginger Rogers' character as a girl on the train is asked to speak Swedish for the conductors, who question her veracity. She answers, "I want to be alone." Again, this joke is something every movie viewer then would have known as an allusion to Swedish film star Greta Garbo. "The Major and the Minor" is a marvelous film and deserves better treatment on IMDb.