Maisie Was a Lady (1941)

Maisie Was a Lady: Directed by Edwin L. Marin. With Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O’Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith. Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family’s new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family’s many problems.

“In this entry in the Maisie series our showgirl from Brooklyn finds herself involvednwith the Rawlston family. She gets involved because a drunken Lew Ayres nreprising some of his role as drunken playboy Nick Seton from Holiday gets AnnnSothern fired from her carnival act. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThrough some interesting circumstances Sothern winds up working for the Rawlston family whose head is Paul Cavanaugh who runs an airplane factory, sonnAyres and daughter Maureen Ou0026#39;Sullivan who Cavanaugh thinking her a plainnJane just smothers completely. He is glad however that Ou0026#39;Sullivan has foundnEdward Ashley and maybe someone from the same social background to takenher off his hands.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAshley is from the same background, but what he is is a thoroughgoing WASPnblue chip rat. When Ou0026#39;Sullivan finds heu0026#39;s two timing her it almost becomesntragic and our Brooklyn showgirl springs into action.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOf course things work out for the best as Maisie instills some common senseninto these upper crust folks. Itu0026#39;s always happy for Sothern except that whennthe next film in the series comes along you know it didnu0026#39;t work out.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI must also single out C. Aubrey Smith as the family butler who has instilled those same blue chip values that his employers have. He and Sothern havensome great scenes together.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMaisie fans and others will like this.”