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The Major and the Minor

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The Major and the Minor	comment	The Major and the Minor is a 1942 romantic Screwball Comedy film that was Billy Wilder's directorial debut in the United States.Susan "SuSu" Applegate (Ginger Rogers) is a twenty-something who is disappointed with her job prospects in New York City and decides to return home to Iowa. Finding that the train fare is more than she can afford, she disguises herself as a twelve-year-old girl in order to buy a child's half-fare ticket.While running away from suspicious conductors after she's caught smoking, Susan meets Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland), who actually believes she's twelve, and offers her his spare berth for the night. But the train is stopped by a flooded bridge, and Kirby naturally can't leave an "underage" girl stranded all by herself, so he convinces her to stay at the nearby military academy where he works.Said academy happens is run by Colonel Hill (Edward Fielding), whose daughter Pamela (Rita Johnson) just happens to be Kirby's fiancée. Pamela is actively thwarting Kirby's desire to return to active service, so that she can have a lovely wedding and long honeymoon, and the couple can remain stateside. Unfortunately, Kirby—who wants to take a more active role in the war—doesn't know anything about this deception.At the academy, Susan finds an unexpected ally in Lucy (Diana Lynn), Pamela's teenaged younger sister, in whose room she is staying. Lucy—who is studying biology, and can tell that "SuSu" couldn't possibly be twelve (her calves have no baby fat and her smile lines are too deep)—promises to keep Susan's secret if she'll help her scuttle Pamela's plans.How will Susan survive in this academy full of horny boys, especially with her own feelings for Major Kirby growing? Ah, let the screwball comedy answer it for you.
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The Major and the Minor / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: When the train is stopped, Pamela gets onboard looking for Kirby and finds Susan (looking her real age for the moment) in his compartment.
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The Major and the Minor / int_31387558	type	Hollywood Kiss
The Major and the Minor / int_31387558	comment	Hollywood Kiss: The ever so famous Fade Out kiss.
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The Major and the Minor / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: "SuSu" gets dumped into a whole Military School full of younger-teenage boys who only get to see girls on special occasions. They spend a lot of time trying to get to first base with her, and even draw up a schedule of who gets to see her and when.
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The Major and the Minor / int_3c0bf189	type	Adults Dressed as Children
The Major and the Minor / int_3c0bf189	comment	Adults Dressed as Children: See that poster?
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The Major and the Minor / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
The Major and the Minor / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: Susan dressing up as 12-year-old just to get half fare.
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The Major and the Minor / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Major and the Minor / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Rogers looks less and less like a twelve-year-old and more and more like Ginger Rogers over the course of the movie.
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The Major and the Minor / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Major and the Minor / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Loads and loads. Mostly Susan towards Major Kirby, but you know, if it weren't for the age thing...
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The Major and the Minor / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
The Major and the Minor / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: At least in the film, it's the cool adults who do it.
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The Major and the Minor / int_6b27162d	comment	The Remake: Remade in 1955 as the Martin and Lewis vehicle You're Never Too Young, with Jerry Lewis in Rogers' role.
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The Major and the Minor / int_7e345221	type	Snowball Lie
The Major and the Minor / int_7e345221	comment	Snowball Lie: The whole story.
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The Major and the Minor / int_86a5c427	type	Kiddie Kid
The Major and the Minor / int_86a5c427	comment	Kiddie Kid: In film, Susan Applegate's attempt as a twelve-year-old comes off more as a six-year-old.
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The Major and the Minor / int_8fa43c7c	type	Nursery Rhyme
The Major and the Minor / int_8fa43c7c	comment	Nursery Rhyme: SuSu sings "A-tisket, A-tasket" on the train in a vain attempt to exude innocence.
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The Major and the Minor / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Major and the Minor / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Lucy, who uses her knowledge of Susan's actual age to more or less blackmail her into helping sabotage Pamela's plans to keep Kirby out of active duty.
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The Major and the Minor / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Major and the Minor / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Oh, "SuSu". Lucy, too:
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The Major and the Minor / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Major and the Minor / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Early in the film, a girl mentions that she wants to buy a movie magazine where the lead story is "Why I Hate Women, by Charles Boyer." Wilder had clashed with Boyer the previous year when the actor refused to do a scene Wilder had co-written for Hold Back the Dawn.
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The Major and the Minor / int_b9b5af3e	type	The Film of the Play
The Major and the Minor / int_b9b5af3e	comment	The Film of the Play: Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett loosely adapted their screenplay from the 1923 play Connie Goes Home by Edwin Childs Carpenter.
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The Major and the Minor / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Major and the Minor / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Susan says that she used to spit at people as a child.
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The Major and the Minor / int_c30b3981	type	Mistaken for Prostitute
The Major and the Minor / int_c30b3981	comment	Mistaken for Prostitute: Implied in the opening scene, when an elevator boy doesn't believe Susan when she says she's going up to a strange man's apartment to give him a scalp massage.
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The Major and the Minor / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Major and the Minor / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When the train officials ask Susan to say something in Swedish, she says Greta Garbo's famous line from Grand Hotel. Another one to Veronica Lake, as all the girls from the girls' school copy her famous peek-a-boo hairdo.
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The Major and the Minor / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Likely why Susan objects to the above telegraph gag.
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The Major and the Minor / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Major and the Minor / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: One of the academy's cadets turns out to be the son of Mr. Osborne (Robert Benchley), a Casanova Wannabe former client of Susan's in New York. Uh oh.
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The Major and the Minor / int_e49e1e63	type	Devilish Hair Horns
The Major and the Minor / int_e49e1e63	comment	Devilish Hair Horns: Pamela wears victory rolls, reflecting her cold and mean-spirited personality.
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The Major and the Minor / int_e6a83fb0	type	Telegraph Gag STOP
The Major and the Minor / int_e6a83fb0	comment	Telegraph Gag STOP: Pamela and the Colonel think that Kirby has slept with Susan (seeing her in a moment where she didn't look 12), so Kirby tells SuSu that he needs her to clear his name. The gag comes in when Kirby realizes he needs to tell SuSu's parents about taking her home with him.
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The Major and the Minor / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
The Major and the Minor / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Pamela's "how utterly beguiling!"
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The Major and the Minor / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
The Major and the Minor / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Type 2. Major Kirby hilariously gives little "SuSu" an analogy of flies and a lightbulb. "SuSu" being the light of course. After the talk, she coyly answers:
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The Major and the Minor / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Major and the Minor / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: All the cadets at the school seem to use the same pick-up line. Susan even uses it on Kirby in the last scene.
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The Major and the Minor / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
The Major and the Minor / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead / Disposable Fiancée: It's not like there's any chance Kirby is going to wind up with Pamela instead of Susan.
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The Major and the Minor / int_ff16efbf	type	Heroes Want Redheads
The Major and the Minor / int_ff16efbf	comment	Heroes Want Redheads: Major Kirby notices that Applegate's hair is like "a daisy in a field of uniforms."
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