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)”
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Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Slightly Dangerous is the last fully comic film that Lana Turner starred in. It’s very funny, but it’s also disorientingly schizophrenic. It can’t decide whether it’s a 1930s gold-digger-with-a-heart of gold story, a screwball romance, or the gothic tale of a beautiful psychopath. It feels like MGM in 1943 was effectively paralyzed in their visionContinue reading “Slightly Dangerous (1943)”