The Major and the Minor
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Producer: Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
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.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Wilder moved to Hollywood in 1934 shortly after directing his first film, the French language Mauvaise Graine.
- During the ensuing years, he and Charles Brackett had collaborated on eight screenplays, including Ninotchka and Ball of Fire, but Wilder was anxious to direct again and producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. agreed to give him a chance.
- Wilder was determined to make a mainstream film that would be a box-office success so he would not be relegated to a typewriter for the rest of his career.
Previous Showings
7 Runs • 4 Festivals
7,013 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (December 22, 1942)
Original Run: December 22, 1942 (Tuesday - Saturday)
All runs on record (7):
- December 22, 1942 (Tuesday - Saturday)Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland
- March 4 - 8, 1994 · 1,499 ticketsw/ Midnight
- August 10 - 11, 1995 · 933 ticketsw/ Swing Time
- July 20 - 23, 2002 · 1,735 ticketssummer02w/ Monkey Business
- February 14 - 16, 2009 · 1,241 ticketsWinter 2009w/ Miracle at Morgan's Creek
- June 23 - 25, 2017 · 1,166 ticketsClassic Comedy With Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, W.C. Fields and more!w/ Sullivan's Travels
- July 15 - 16, 2026 · 439 ticketsSummer 2026 including the Films of Marilyn Monroew/ Monkey Business