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"Modern girl Susan Applegate is desperate to go home from New York to Iowa, but doesn't have the railway fare - so she disguises herself as a child to travel at half price. En route she meets Army major, Philip Kirby, who is taken in by her deception. But his ladyfriend isn't and comedy ensues. Billy Wilder's first film in Hollywood was a huge hit that kick-started the director's long and hallowed career."@en
"This farcical comedy was Wilder's directorial debut after years as a scriptwriter. Ginger Rogers plays a working-class girl living in New York who wants to leave the big city and return home to the Midwest. Unable to pay the full train fare she dress up as a 12 year-old and manages to get away with paying half-fare. Caught smoking on board, she takes refuge with a major en route to a military academy. The major and his cadets are unable to explain their attraction for such a young girl. The script is full of rapid-fire one liners and risque dialogue (including the memorable line 'Why don't you step out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?')."@en
"After a year in New York, Susan Applegate (Rogers) decides to go home. Only the train fair has gone up, so she disguises herself as a 12 year old, and buys a child's ticket. When the railroad tracks flood and the train stalls, Susan accompanies Major Kirby (Milford) to a nearby military academy where she must remain in character."@en
"After a year in New York (and 25 jobs), Susan Applegate(Rogers) decides that she's giving up on big city life, figuring it's time to go home. Only the train fare has gone up since she last rode, so she disguises herself as a 12 year old named "Sue Sue", and manages to get a ticket for child's fare. Now on board, the conductors are on to her scheme so she ends up hiding out in a compartment, not knowing it's already occupied by Major Kirby(Milland), a military academy instructor with poor eyesight. When the railroad tracks flood and the train stalls, Kirby demands that Sue Sue accompany him to the academy, since she's without parental suprvision. There she'll be able to get a ride to her hometown. Now, Susan must remain in character as the academy's young cadets vie for her attention - and she finds herself falling for Major, whom, she is convinced, is about to marry a woman who's all wrong for him."@en
"The major and the minor: Working girl Susan Applegate has had enough of life in New York and decides to head home to Iowa. The trouble is she hasn't saved enough money for the trip home, so she disguises herself as a 12 year old to ride half fare in this romantic comedy. Bachelor mother: Polly Parish is a clerk at a department store who is mistakenly presumed to be a mother of an orphan. Outraged at Polly's conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and her child together in this heart-warming comedy."
"A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled."@en