The Major and the Minor (1942)

THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR  (1942)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Billy Wilder
    Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson,
    Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn, Edward Fielding
Ginger Rogers poses as a 12-year-old to ride the train back to Iowa, when she learns she can't afford the adult fare. On board, she meets Major Ray Milland, who's taken with her schoolgirl charms. When she ends up spending a few days at the military academy he's assigned to, she has to keep the charade going longer than she planned. A sharp, funny comedy, the first American movie directed by Billy Wilder. In a way, it's a precursor to "Some Like It Hot", where instead of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon masquerading as women, you've got Ginger masquerading as this precocious kid. Wilder and Charles Brackett wrote the script, and if it seems a little risqué for something released in 1942, that's Billy Wilder.