Gold Rush Maisie was the third film in the ten-film MAISIE series, and the first that was not based on stories by Wilson Collison. (I take a stab at describing the MAISIE enterprise here.) That freedom allowed scriptwriter Mary McCall, Jr. and the series’s star Ann Sothern to imagine their picara heroine’s trajectory their ownContinue reading “Gold Rush Maisie (1940)”
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Design for Living (1933)
I’ve never cared much for Design for Living, and I’m not quite sure why. It doesn’t seem to be a favorite of many other critics, either. It’s respected, but not loved. James Harvey, whose Romantic Comedy in Hollywood from Lubitsch to Sturges is like Scripture for me, makes an interesting claim about this. He arguesContinue reading “Design for Living (1933)”