Swing Shift Maisie

Swing Shift Maisie (1943)

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.

Date de sortie
1943-10-01
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (5)
Durée
1 h 27 min
Genres
Comédie, Romance
Réalisateur
Norman Z. McLeod
Collection
Maisie Ravier Collection

Distribution

Anecdotes

Swing Shift Maisie is a 1943 romantic comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod. It is the seventh in a series of 10 films starring Ann Sothern as Maisie, preceded by Maisie Gets Her Man (1942) and followed by Maisie Goes to Reno (1944). Her co-stars are James Craig and Jean Rogers.

Production

In Swing Shift Maisie, Ann Sothern was reprising a familiar role as the "gum-cracking, back-talking Brooklyn bombshell". MGM studio bosses knew, however, that the series was a profitable and popular franchise.

Unlike aircraft factory settings for other wartime films such as Captains of the Clouds (1942) that used the Lockheed Vega Burbank factory, Swing Shift Maisie was set in a fictitious "Victory Aircraft". MGM studios had bought two Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft for a film project on the air war in North Africa, simply titled "P-38". The project was never realized but one of the aircraft was featured in A Guy Named Joe (1943).

Swing Shift Maisie, filmed at Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale (Los Angeles), also used a Northrop A-17A, Seversky SEV-3 and Douglas DC-3 in some scenes.

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