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Some of it is overly-sophisticated, as the catty dialogue with Pamela, the Major's fiancee; and some of it is slapstick: the chase through the train to escape the conductors, her contortions to stop the Major's nosebleed with a cold towel. But more important and more satisfying are the take-offs on sophistication, the Veronica Lake fad, the girl-wise cadets, and the whole portrayal of the buffaloed Major Kirby...
That night, Wakefield boarded a 43-ft. schooner for an overnight fishing trip. After dinner his daughter Pamela clambered into the dinghy and accidentally cast herself adrift without oars. Wakefield hauled up anchor and sailed after the girl but only went hard aground. The dinghy drifted on into a marsh while Wakefield frantically waved red flares for help and SOS'd till the batteries were dead. Nobody came. Pamela stumbled through the marsh to the home of a vacationing Coast Guardsman and next morning returned with him to the stranded yacht...
...source of money is of small importance.) But he itched to be a proper politician. He tried three times, a boisterous, hard-hitting, unsuccessful candidate for Parliament who rebelled against Conservative Party tactics and advice. One month after World War II began he married redhaired, green-eyed Socialite Pamela Digby, daughter of the nth Baron Digby. He was then a subaltern in the exclusive the Queen's Own Hussars. In 1940 he finally got his seat in Parliament in an unopposed election. His father, whom he adores, sponsored him before the House, beamed like a sunflower shortly thereafter when...
...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...
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...