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...Major and the Minor (Ginger Rogers, Robert Benchley, Ray Milland, Diana Lynn, Raymond Roe, Frankie Thomas Jr.; TIME, Sept...
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...
...picture struggles with the old plot about the slightly whacky, well-meaning little wife (Betty Field) who thinks she can manage her husband's (Ray Milland) career while ignoring the family budget. On his salary as a small-town bank vice president the pair live in a manner to which only Hollywood is accustomed. He cuts up at fancy-dress balls. She has a genius for speaking out of turn. The story strives so hard to be funny that the actors rarely have a chance...
...Rooney. Paulette Goddard, whom we recall quite pleasantly as a sweater-girl from her native Bronx, is made-up into a Southern belle with absolutely ghastly effect. John Wayne plays the dumb-but-honest-lug-who-goes-wrong--a part admirably in-harmony with his facial expressions; and Ray Milland, completing the triangle, is thoroughly helpless with lines that no Booth could have carried...
...Paulette Goddard is there, speakin' Southern and doin' her best to get a little honest salvage away from Raymond Massey, head of the highjackers and a rat, old-style. Romancing the pretty salvage wrecker around are Sea Captain John Wayne, who seems quite depressed, and Shipowner Ray Milland, who is anything but. He gets her. In the end, poor Paulette, surrounded by dead and dying salvagers, wails: "This is all my doin...