Maisie Ravier loses her job as an assistant in Horatio Curley's dog act as a result of a minor quarrel with test pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin.

Breezy gets Curley a job at the Victory Aircraft factory where he works and offers to use his influence on Maisie's behalf too.

Maisie stops a suicide attempt by failed actress Iris Reed, who lives across the hall, and persuades her to get a job in the same place.

When Iris gets fired, she uses her feminine charms to get Judd Evans, a factory clerk, to pay the rent for an apartment in his building.

In Swing Shift Maisie, Ann Sothern was reprising a familiar role as the "gum-cracking, back-talking Brooklyn bombshell".

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".

[4] 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.

[4] Film critic Theoore Strauss in his review for The New York Times, thought Swing Shift Maisie had become stale, but still saw the charms of the main character.