JohnHowardReid Ann Sothern (Maisie Ravier), George Murphy (Skeets Maguire), Robert Sterling (Terry Dolan), Natalie Thompson (Cecelia Reardon), Maxie Rosenbloom (Chotsie), Margaret Moffat (Mrs Dolan), John Indrisano (Peaches), Virginia O'Brien (herself), Eddie Simms (Billy-Boy Duffy), Jack LaRue (Ricky DuPrez), Purnell Pratt (Dr Taylor), May McAvoy (day nurse), Tom Dugan (checker), Jonathan Hale (Dr Kramer), Roy Lester (jitterbug), Oscar O'Shea (conductor), "Rags" Ragland (Vic).Director: EDWIN L. MARIN. Screenplay: Mary C. McCall Jr. Based on the character created by Wilson Collison. Photography: Charles Lawton. Film editor: Fredrick Y. Smith. Music score: David Snell. Supervising art director: Cedric Gibbons. Supervising set decorator: Edwin B. Willis. Costumes: Robert Kalloch. Sound supervisor: Douglas Shearer. Western Electric Sound System. Producer: J. Walter Ruben. Copyright 29 July 1941 by Loew's Inc. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture. New York opening at the Capitol (would you believe?): 31 July 1941. U.S. release: 1 August 1941. Australian release: 4 December 1941. 10 reels. 96 minutes. Cut by at least 100 feet in Australia. U.K. and Australian release title: CASH AND CARRY.SYNOPSIS: This time, Maisie, who performs so many good deeds each day that she should be made an honorary Girl Scout for life, is bringing aid and comfort to a forlorn young prize-fighter who wants to quit before he becomes world's champion and his mother finds out where his money is coming from.NOTES: Number 5 of the nine-picture Maisie series. COMMENT: Title changes are often a sure clue that a movie is in trouble. This one posed an additional difficulty for M-G-M's overseas branch offices in that at 96 minutes it ran far too long for a "B" feature.Maisie's fans were mostly women, who were not likely to be attracted to a boxing yarn — despite the presence of some real fighters like Johnny Indrisano and Eddie Simms. For once I sympathize with the studio, for this entry is a dud in all departments, — script, acting, title, and especially direction.Why was the movie re-titled "Cash and Carry"? Well, you see the hero doesn't want to be a boxer. He wants to open a grocery store.

Robert Gold I have seen many of the Maisie films, and this one was another pleasant entry into the series.When I watched the first Maisie film, I felt like I was watching Jean Harlow. I later learned that the Maisie character was intended for Jean; however I enjoyed Ann Sothern's performance as the sassy character.Ann does a great job showing that a woman could handle herself in every situation and always land on her feet. She is smart, sexy, and savvy.I am so grateful to TCM for showing these films, so that I can get the chance to see them for the first time.

blanche-2 Ann Sothern is Maisie again in "Ringside Maisie," a 1941 film also starring Robert Sterling and George Murphy. It's possible that this film is where Ms. Sothern met Sterling, her first husband.The Maisie plots had certain similarities and have to be taken as separate stories, which has always bothered me. It would seem at the end of one film that Maisie had found the man of her dreams, yet in the next film, there would be someone else. Maisie was always the same - a flashy, down in her luck entertainer on her way to a job somewhere, getting stranded, meeting some guy that she hates at first, and then love blooms.In this entry, the man is George Murphy as Francis, who handles gifted prize fighter Terry Dolan (Sterling). Maisie has a job performing and loses it the same night because she won't sleep with her partner (although obviously that isn't stated). She winds up being a companion to the boxer's mother. Over time, she learns that Dolan wants only to buy a grocery store - he hates fighting and is frightened every time he goes into the ring. With Maisie's encouragement, he confronts Francis, who is also a friend, only to have Francis demand he live up to his contract, with disastrous results.These movies were, for the most part, very entertaining. Sothern never did anything she didn't shine in, definitely one of the most likable actresses ever - beautiful, warm, funny, always convincing. When her leading woman days were over, she continued her career as a character actress. She was a wonderful star, even if she didn't reach the heights of Jean Harlow or Carole Lombard. She has good support here from the handsome Sterling and the versatile George Murphy.Good entry into the series.

David (Handlinghandel) Ann Sothern is delightful in her Maisie roles (and in virtually everything she did.) This is an especially charming entry in the series.It has a few small problems that can be attributed to its time. The flouncy desk clerk is one, but prissy, effeminate desk clerks were a staple of movies for a couple decades. (Alas.) In a way, the notion that prize fighter Robert Sterling would rather die than continue his life as a blind person is dated, too. But this movie is generally good with disabilities. People are still terrified of blindness, though more is known about it now; and the character of Sterling's mother is in a wheelchair and not treated in at all a condescending fashion.The idea that a smart, pretty, self-sufficient woman like Sothern's Maisie would chose the (to me) thoroughly unappealing George Murphy over the tender character played by the very handsome Robert Sterling is kind of laughable. And apparently the offscreen Sothern felt that way too, since she and Sterling were married two years after this picture's release.