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...tailcoat passes to Cesar Romero but gets lost in the shuffle, while Ginger Rogers leads Harvard's own Henry Fonda into growling like a lion. He does this so successfully that she promptly falls in love with him. Just to prove that it is not socially exclusive, the "hero" of the story goes to Edward G. Robinson, a definitely fallen college man who dresses up to attend his college reunion. There he joins in the singing or "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," proving that it isn't just Harvard men who pass from champagne parties to the gutter...
...Ginger Rogers as Susan (Susu) Applegate takes to pigtails in order to buy a half-fare ticket to Stevenson, Iowa. She wants to escape Manhattan mashers like Robert Benchley. Unsuspecting Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland) protects her from highly suspicious trainmen, takes her to spend a howling few days at the Wallace Military Institute. There are love complications with the Major's financée Pamela (Rita Johnson), who wants to keep him out of active service, and with her sister Lucy (Diana Lynn), a cold-eved little biologist, who wants to get him in. Ginger helps Lucy...
...real fun in The Major and the Minor are Ginger's relations with the lovelorn cadets. Each of them tries to kiss her by showing her "how they took Sedan," then offering to show her how Paris fell. Cadet Wigton (Raymond Roe) takes Sedan with a fuzzily rapacious kiss, fails to take Paris. The other boys superimpose a line of their own on this basic strategy. Cadet Osborne (Frankie Thomas Jr.) turns out to be Masher Benchley's boy. Like his old man, he uses the Park Avenue technique, tells her that "you and I could make beautiful...
Major Kirby, sweating painfully, tries explaining about the bees and flowers. By the time Fiancée Pamela expels Ginger from the school, she has learned a lot about boys, won the Major from Pamela...
...underlying coltishness has always been one of Ginger Rogers' strongest assets; here, it is the whole show. Her scenes on the train are at once broad, delicate and unflaggingly funny. In the cadets, she has some of the stiffest comic competition of the year. Ginger's real-life mother has a pleasant maternal moment playing her cinemama. Scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder seem to know all there is to know about the comedy inherent in the schoolboy mind. Billy Wilder, directing his first picture, puts it deftly across...