Congo Maisie was the second of the popular MAISIE series starring Ann Sothern as the eponymous showgirl-picara. (I try to capture the gist of the whole ten-film “Maisie” enterprise here.) It was also the last of the films to be based on the novels by Wilson Collison, who had earlier written the play on whichContinue reading “Congo Maisie (1940)”
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Maisie (1939)
Maisie was the first of MGM’s immensely popular series of ten films spanning the war years, starring Ann Sothern as Maisie Ravier, a showgirl picara wandering from situation to situation, setting to setting, job to job, and genre to genre. Beautiful, sexy, honest, endowed with an Irish-inflected proletarian p.o.v., an acute observer with a bitingContinue reading “Maisie (1939)”