These days, rampaging inflation is making many things people were supposed to take for granted unaffordable. Many who are forced to take some extreme measures to cut costs would probably feel sympathy for someone like the protagonist of *The Major and the Minor*, a 1942 comedy directed by Billy Wilder. The plot begins in New York City, where a young woman, Susan Kathleen Applegate (played by Ginger Rogers), has supp…







