Remembering Ginger Rogers with Ray Milland in... The Major and the Minor is a 1942 American comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. It was the first American film directed by Billy Wilder; it launched a directing career that lasted more than half a century. The screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett is based on the play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter. Plot After her first client, Albert Osborne (Robert Benchley), makes a heavy pass and refuses to take “No” for an answ