1941 Directed by Edwin L. Marin
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.
Ann Sothern Lew Ayres Maureen O'Sullivan C. Aubrey Smith Joan Perry Paul Cavanagh Edward Ashley Barbara Bedford Hans Conried Will Wright Margaret Bert Henry Blair Joan Blair Charles D. Brown Charles Coleman Edgar Dearing Joe Devlin Jack Gardner Jody Gilbert George Guhl Howard Hickman Harry Wilson Anne O'Neal Alice Keating Milton Kibbee Gertrude Simpson Joe Yule Tim Ryan John T. Bambury Show All…
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Maisie Was a Lady is an unusually dark entry into the Maisie series, a film featuring a spoiled, naïve girl whose fragile confidence and desire to live are stolen by a gold-digging man, and who has "friends" only because she has money; about a wealthy, dissolute family that uses money in place of connection. But none of it is irreversible, because Maisie — powerful, resolute, honest, working class Maisie — is there to save them from themselves.
Maisie (the magnificent Ann Sothern) is a breath of fresh air, a woman wrought from determination and sweetness, who speaks her truth no matter who is listening, or how many rungs above her on the social ladder her audience resides. Somehow existing entirely…
My first Maisie movie! I throughly enjoyed it. Ann Sothern as Maisie is a joy with her sass and wisecracking lines, but she's also equally sweet and caring. And the supporting cast of Lew Ayres and Maureen O'Sullivan was the icing on the cake!
“Those who scoff at science are destined to fail.”
My girl Ann Sothern who I can never get enough of, and is on fire here as Maisie...and there are certain people who could make her blood boil, and one of them for the time being is a Long Island playboy in top hat and tails Lew Ayres who is so loaded he doesn’t even know if it’s Thursday or raining and causes her to lose her $25 a week job at the carnival as Marva the ‘headless woman’ by applying a bit of adolescent behavior...Maisie now with no job a two dimes and 45 miles between herself and NYC.
Ann is spot-on with her Maisie confrontations with the entire cast as…
For the third time in 4 movies, Maisie has found true love forever. My wife won't watch them anymore, even with my "alternate universe" theory to explain all these true loves.
Maisie is working in a carnival as a headless woman and loses her job due to a drunk Lew Ayers. He loans her his super fancy car so she can get back to Brooklyn. A cop recognizes the car, but doesn't recognize her so he arrests her for stealing the car. In the courtroom the next morning Ayers doesn't remember anything until she comes unhinged at the injustice of it all. The judge orders Ayers to pay Maisie for her lost wages, but she won't take a handout. So…
Maisie finds herself working in a mansion with an impressive cast. Lew Ayres is a rich ne'er-do-well who inadvertently gets Maisie in trouble so, of course, he's forced to make recompense. But Maisie being the Maisie I love won't take money, only a job that pays her what's due, so she becomes a maid in his family's mansion. C. Aubry Smith, the butler, shows her the ropes and Maisie befriends Maureen O'Sullivan, Ayres' naive sister who is being taken advantage of by nearly everyone but especially her caddish fiancé played by Edward Ashley-Cooper.
I liked the scenes with Ann Sothern and Smith and the scene where Maisie tells off Ayres and the father, played by Paul Cavanagh, is everything I…
Maisie takes many roles.... this time as a reluctant maid, experiencing upper-class problems, which is almost on par with 1st world problems. Ann Sothern is great, and I loved her little moments with C. Aubrey Smith, a man who usually played Lords and other higher-ups, here a beyond retirement-age butler naively loving the family he's always worked for. The rich kids ended up being too melodramatic for their own good and sort of took the joy out of things. But of course this Maisie makes it entertaining.
After a "Red Dust" Maisie and then a "Grapes of Wrath" Maisie comes this entry, which kind of plays like a "My Man Godfrey" Maisie.
Maisie (Ann Sothern) is offered a make-good maid's job by a drunken socialite (Lew Ayres). Here she meets his sister (Maureen O'Sullivan), who has invited all her rich and snotty friends to the mansion to celebrate her engagement. What ensues is a mess that a maid must clean up.
While this film doesn't reach the heights of the first film in the "Maisie" series, it does offer some decent laughs and a good heart. The cast is a big reason why I like this film more so than the second and third installments. You not only get Lew and Maureen, but also C. Aubrey Smith. Ann is lovely as "Maisie."
Well, if this isn't the best Maisie movie I have ever seen, I don't know what is! In all honesty, not sure any of the other Maisie movies could top this, though I have only seen four of them, I don't really see any of them reaching the heights of this one.
Not only is almost every single woman in this movie incredible beyond belief, they all speak their mind and tell it how it is, and I am so here for it. I really wish there was more of Joan Perry as Diana. I actually quite liked her, and she was the only one willing to speak up and save Abby (O'Sullivan) from the horrible likes of Link. She…
Another journey with Maisie (my third), in between the first Maisie film 2 years earlier and the 8th film 3 years later, and this feels like Maisie is a lot closer to the original Maisie, where she's not a quick-thinking character in bad situations that she has to deal with. I do think she's smart enough to not be quite as aggressive in a few of these situations (and, ironically, to also not be as passive in a particular scene), but most of this is still her being the most sensible person in the room and Ann Sothern does a good job of representing a general sort of moral offense at how the rich behave.
There's also some solid work…
Can someone tell me what Maisie can't do because god she literally carry this movie with her own back, i can literally list it :
✅️ being A Maid
✅️ fixing a dysfunctional family
✅️ gives terrific speeches
✅️ helping an alcoholic man facing his past
