An insouciant comedy, The Major and the Minor showcases how gifted studio directors like Wilder were able to skate pirouettes around the Hollywood censors while gliding over the perilously thin ice of blatant sexual innuendo. Disguised as a twelve year old girl in order to secure train passage home, Ginger Rogers quickly attracts the amorous attentions of Ray Milland, an upstanding Army major who is smitten by the nymph. “A premature Lolita,” Wilder would later claim for this delightful farce of American sexual mores.