The Major and the Minor (1942)
With Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn, Will Wright, Norma Varden, Edward Fielding
Directed by Billy Wilder
The Major and the Minor is a 1942 American romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. It was the first American film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay credited to Wilder and Charles Brackett is "suggested by" the 1923 play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter, based on the 1921 Saturday Evening Post story "Sunny Goes Home" by Fannie Kilbourne.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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