Swing Shift Maisie (1943)

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and ... See full summary »

Director:

Norman Z. McLeod

Writers:

Wilson Collison (characters), Robert Halff,

Stars:

Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ann Sothern	...	Maisie Ravier
James Craig	...	Brian 'Breezy' McLaughlin
Jean Rogers	...	Iris Reed
Connie Gilchrist	...	Maw Lustvogel
John Qualen	...	Horatio Curley
Kay Medford	...	Ann Wilson
Harry Wiere	...	Harry Smith / Schmidt
Herbert Wiere	...	Herbert Smith / Schmidt
Sylvester Wiere	...	Sylvester Smith / Schmidt
Jacqueline White	...	Grace
Betty Jaynes	...	Ruth
Frederick Brady	...	Judd Evans (as Fred Brady)
Marta Linden	...	Emmy Lou Grogan
Celia Travers	...	Helen Johnson
Donald Curtis	...	Joe Peterson

Storyline

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.

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Plot Keywords:

sequel | maisie series | ménage à trois | character name in title

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 October 1943 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Girl in Overalls

Filming Locations:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The seventh of ten movies starring Ann Sothern as the heroine Maisie Ravier.

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Connections

Follows Maisie (1939)

User Reviews

Sorry, nothing but bad vibes from this 'Maisie' movie...

There's a bad taste left after viewing this supposedly amusing Maisie film, the seventh in the series, which has Maisie and the other femme lead (JEAN ROGERS) making a lot of bad choices and doing a lot of foolish and sometimes mean-spirited things.

We get the idea that Maisie is supposed to be a "breezy" character and ANN SOTHERN is adept at getting this facet of Maisie's personality across. But the script has her making a chump of herself over befriending the wrong-headed JEAN ROGERS, who turns out to be a conniving idiot, and both in love with the equally addle-brained JAMES CRAIG, who plays a wartime test pilot in love with both girls working at a munitions factory.

The script calls for one foolish scene after another, finally ending with Craig dumping Rogers for Sothern and finally seeing the light.

Only die-hard fans of Ann Sothern will enjoy this one. The script needed to be totally revamped and is actually quite obnoxious at times.