Boxcars711 Old Time Rado Pod - Adventures of Maisie "Murderous Poet "(7-05-32)
Maisie, the first in 1939, was from the book "Dark Dame" by the\nwriter Wilson Collison,who did decades of scripting for the silver screen along\nwith Broadway plays and magazine fiction. From the first, MGM wanted Ann\nSothern to play Maisie. She began in Hollywood as an extra in 1927.\n"Maisie and I were just together - I just understood her," Sothern,\nborn Harriette Arlene Lake, said after several of the films made her a star.\nThroughout the 1930s and '40s, Ann Sothern and Lucille Ball, like many performers\nin Hollywood, had not one but two careers - one in motion pictures and one on\nradio.\xa0 MGM Studios had created the\nseries of ten motion pictures based on a brash blonde with a heart "of\nspun gold." Maisie, the first in 1939, was from the book "Dark\nDame" by the writer Wilson Collison, who did decades of scripting for the\nsilver screen along with Broadway plays and magazine fiction.