A frustrated city girl disguises 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 a handsome Major.
New York working girl Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Philip Kirby, an Army major teaching at a military school.—Jack McKillop <[email protected]>
Tired of being hit on by leches no matter what job she embarks on, street-wise Susan Applegate, having been in New York City for a year, decides to go home to Stevenson, Iowa and accept the standing marriage proposal of Will Duffy, despite she not truly being in love with him. Learning that she doesn't have the full train fare for the trip home, she decides, seeing some children at the station, to disguise herself as twelve year old "Su-Su" Applegate to travel on a child's half fare. She has to keep up the ruse until she arrives home, she being able to fool most people she encounters, while she needs to evade those, especially in authority, who know she's not twelve and thus is committing fraud. Someone who she meets in the former category is Major Philip Kirby, who is getting off at High Creek, Indiana where he teaches as the Wallace Military Institute. Due to the circumstance of a blockage on the rail line, Susan is forced to stay in High Creek for a few days, where she will have to continue the ruse longer than she wanted, especially as Philip has arranged for her to stay with his fiancée Pamela Hill's family, she the daughter of the school's headmaster, Colonel Oliver Hill. Complicating matters is that all the teenage cadets at the institute fall instantly in love with Su-Su despite all the other girls in town trying to appear more grown up than they are, and Susan in turn falling in love with Philip, who is trying to get back into active service, especially as he can foresee the US entering the war, with Pamela secretly doing what she can to thwart Philip's wants in this regard for her own selfish wants in seeing their future married life together in non-battle bliss.—Huggo
A young woman is unable to afford the train fare to her home town in Iowa so pretends to be a 12-year-old girl in order to pay half-fare. On the train the conductors start to get suspicious and she runs from them, hiding in the compartment of an Army Major. He falls for her guise but things get complicated when she stays at the military school he is an instructor at and when she meets his fiancée.—grantss
Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) decides to leave New York City and take a train back to Iowa, but she has only enough money for a child's ticket. She disguises herself as a young girl and, after being discovered by the train conductor, hides out in the car of Major Kirby (Ray Milland). Kirby believes she is a child and watches after her. But as Kirby's fiancée (Rita Johnson) and others grow suspicious of Susan's ruse, her cleverness is thoroughly tested.—FilmsNow
Fed up with New York life after one year's residence, Susan Applegate decides to use the money that she has saved for her return train ticket home but discovers at the ticket window that the fare has gone up. Unwilling to remain in New York a day longer, Susan gets an inspiration when she sees a child receive the ticket at half-price. She dashes into the women's bathroom, rubs off all her makeup and dresses as if she were a little girl. She then pays a stranger to buy her a child's ticket on the train and maintains the ruse even after she boards. When suspicious conductors catch her smoking a cigarette, Susan hides in the sleeper cabin occupied by Major Philip Kirby, a military boys' school instructor who is returning from Washington, D.C. after trying to get his military status reactivated. Philip, taken in by "Su-su's" childlike behavior, shelters her from the conductors and lets her stay the night in the lower berth. The next day, the train is detained by flooding on the tracks, and Philip's fiance Pamela and future father-in-law, Colonel Hill, drive up to meet him. When Pamela sees Susan in Philip's room, she thinks he has been having an affair, and Philip is forced to bring Susan to the military school to prove that she is only a twelve-year-old child. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, Philip insists that Susan remain at the school for a few days until someone can escort her home, and she stays at the Hill home. Pamela's teenage sister Lucy immediately sees through Susan's get-up, but because she thinks her sister is a "stinker," she befriends Susan. Lucy reveals that although Pamela claims she is helping Philip fulfill his wish to get active duty, she actually has been using all her connections to prevent him from enlisting so that they can remain at the academy after they are married. Susan becomes popular with all the young boys at the school and has to fend off their amorous advances. After witnessing Pamela's subterfuge, Susan tricks one of Pamela's connections into getting Philip reinstated, but when Pamela hears the news, she calls off their engagement. Pamela learns of Susan's involvement and forces her to leave by threatening to expose her and Philip in a scandal. Susan, who has fallen in love with Philip but has been unable to reveal her true age to him, reluctantly returns home to her mother. Philip stops to see her on his way to California to report for duty, and Susan pretends to be her mother, allowing Philip to leave without learning the truth. However, after hearing that Pamela has married someone else, Susan changes into her own clothes and rushes to the train station to join the finally enlightened Philip on his journey, and they plan to marry en route to California.
