Maisie Ravier

The concept for the original Maisie film came from the novel Dark Dame by Wilson Collison,[1] and Collison is credited as original writer or creator of the character on many of the other Maisie films.

[citation needed] Some sources credit the inspiration for the character as the "Maisie" short stories by Nell Martin, published in Top Notch Magazine in 1927–1928.

[2][3] Sothern said in an interview that the series was originally planned with Jean Harlow as the star.

Reviewing Swing Shift Maisie (1943), Time praised Sothern and described her as "one of the smartest comediennes in the business".

For example, the first film ends with her marrying the leading man and inheriting a ranch, but in the next one she is single and footloose again.