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Release Date:
16 September 1942 (USA) more
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Is She A Kid - Or Is She Kidding?
Plot:
A woman disguises herself as a child to save on a train fare and is taken in charge by an army man who doesn't notice the truth. full summary | add synopsis
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cute funny film more (33 total)
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Cast

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Ginger Rogers ... Susan Kathleen 'Su-Su' Applegate

Ray Milland ... Major Philip Kirby
Rita Johnson ... Pamela Hill
Robert Benchley ... Albert Osborne
Diana Lynn ... Lucy Hill
Edward Fielding ... Colonel Oliver Slater Hill
Frankie Thomas ... Cadet Clifford Osborne
Raymond Roe ... Cadet Lt. Anthony Wigton
Charles Smith ... Cadet 'Cozy' Korner
Larry Nunn ... Cadet Adjutant Babcock
Billy Dawson ... Cadet Lt. Miller
Lela E. Rogers ... Mrs. Applegate (as Lela Rogers)

Aldrich Bowker ... Reverend Doyle
Boyd Irwin ... Major Griscom
Byron Shores ... Captain Durand
Richard Fiske ... Will Duffy
Norma Varden ... Mrs. Osborne
Gretl Dupont ... Mrs. Shackleford
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom McGuire ... News vendor (scenes deleted)
Guy Wilkerson ... Farmer truck driver (scenes deleted)
George Anderson ... Train Passenger with Esquire magazine (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews ... Conductor #1 (uncredited)
Vangie Beilby ... Woman in Train Station (uncredited)
Marie Blake ... Bertha (uncredited)
John Bogden ... Cadet (uncredited)
Carl R. Botefuhr ... Cadet (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks ... Train Passenger (uncredited)
Dick Chandlee ... Cadet (uncredited)
Bill Clauson ... Cadet (uncredited)
Ethel Clayton ... Cadet Ball Guest (uncredited)
James Conaty ... Officer (uncredited)
Billy Cook ... Cadet (uncredited)
Stanley Desmond ... Cadet Shumaker (uncredited)
Tom Dugan ... Con Man in Railraod Station (uncredited)
Mary Field ... Wilbur & Margie's Mother in Railroad Station (uncredited)
Bess Flowers ... Guest at Cadet Ball (uncredited)
Ralph Gilliam ... Cadet (uncredited)
Kenneth Grant ... Cadet (uncredited)
Lynda Grey ... Cadet Ball Guest (uncredited)
Bradley Hail ... Cadet (uncredited)
Sam Harris ... Cadet Ball Guest (uncredited)
Dell Henderson ... Doorman (uncredited)
Carlotta Jelm ... Margie, Little girl in railroad station (uncredited)
Payne B. Johnson ... Boy in dancing scene (uncredited)
Dickie Jones ... Cadet (uncredited)
Alice Keating ... Nurse (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee ... Station agent (uncredited)
Stephen Kirchner ... Cadet (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness ... Man in Apartment Hallway (uncredited)
Jack Lindquist ... Cadet (uncredited)
Ken Lundy ... Elevator boy (uncredited)
David McKim ... Cadet (uncredited)
Freddie Mercer ... Wilbur, Little boy in railroad station (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer ... Cadet Ball Guest (uncredited)
William Newell ... Ticket agent #2 (uncredited)
Buster Nichols ... Cadet (uncredited)
Billy O'Kelly ... Cadet (uncredited)
Emory Parnell ... Conductor #2 (uncredited)
Edward Peil Sr. ... Stationmaster (uncredited)
Jim Pilcher ... Cadet (uncredited)
Billy Ray ... Cadet Sommerville (uncredited)
William Roy ... Cadet Summerville (uncredited)
Archie Twitchell ... Cadet Sergeant at Main Gate (uncredited)
Gloria Williams ... Cadet Ball Guest (uncredited)
Don Wilmot ... Cadet (uncredited)

Will Wright ... Ticket agent #1 (uncredited)
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Directed by
Billy Wilder 
 
Writing credits
Fanny Kilbourne (story "Sunny Goes Home") (as Fannie Kilbourne)

Edward Childs Carpenter (play "Connie Goes Home")

Charles Brackett (writer) and
Billy Wilder (writer)

Produced by
Arthur Hornblow Jr. .... producer
 
Original Music by
Robert Emmett Dolan 
 
Cinematography by
Leo Tover 
 
Film Editing by
Doane Harrison 
 
Art Direction by
Roland Anderson 
Hans Dreier 
 
Costume Design by
Edith Head 
 
Makeup Department
Wally Westmore .... makeup artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Charles C. Coleman .... assistant director (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Don Johnson .... sound recordist
Harold Lewis .... sound recordist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Ernest Laszlo .... camera operator (uncredited)
 
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Australia:G | USA:Approved (PCA #8270) | Finland:K-16 (1943) | Finland:S (1964)

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Trivia:
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
Quotes:
Mr. Osborne: Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in 'Sunset Blvd.': A Look Back (2002) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Sweet Sue Just You more

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10 out of 14 people found the following review useful.
cute funny film, 18 September 2001
Author: (timmauk@hotmail.com) from st. pete, fl usa

This Billy Wilder film stars Ginger Rogers as a grown thirty year old woman passing herself off as a twelve year old kid, PLEASE!! The storyline is unbelievable BUT....made very funny and watchable by its stars.

Susan is a woman who is fed up with New York. She left her little hometown to find happiness in the big city, only to find it filled with disappointment. So she decides to head back home on the train. When she gets there she finds that she is short funds. Not knowing what to do she gets a hairbrained idea that she could simply pass herself off as a kid to pay less!! When the conductor on the train gets wise, she runs and hides in the compartment of Ray Milland. Ginger makes little SuSu(Susan) so cute and delightful and Milland is funny and sweet as the(obviously blind) military school teacher.

It sounds stupid but it isn't really. Give it a chance and you'll love it. ENJOY!!

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