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Preservation funded by the Packard Humanities Institute
The Major and the Minor
U.S., 1942
War may be in the air but the America of Billy Wilder’s directorial debut is still a place where charming, carefree romances bloom. Ginger Rogers delivers a delightful turn and turn again as a young woman down on her luck in New York who disguises herself as a 12-year-old to save on train fare back home. Ray Milland is the surprisingly unsuspecting Army major who takes her under his protective wing along the way. Complications of little consequence pop up while Wilder and his long-time writing partner Charles Brackett take witty jabs at youth and military cultures alike.
35mm, b&w, 100 min. Director: Billy Wilder. Screenwriter: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder. With: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson.
Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with Universal Studios.
Preservation funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
A Foreign Affair
U.S., 1948
The naiveté and innocence that allows The Major and the Minor to work its endearing spell have dissipated in the ruins of post-war Berlin giving free-range to Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s more caustic comic inclinations. The project began as an ask from the U.S. Office of War Information for an anti-Nazi propaganda film for German audiences. Wilder and Brackett delivered instead a romantic triangle between an American Army officer (John Lund), a visiting American congresswoman (Jean Arthur) and a blonde cabaret singer with a dubious past (Marlene Dietrich) that strips away all patriotic pretense in its satirical portrait of postwar love amid the rubble.
35mm, b&w, 116 min. Director: Billy Wilder. Screenwriter: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen. With: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund.
Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with Universal Studios.
