Gold Rush Maisie (1940)

• Directors
  • Edwin L. Marin
  • J. Walter Ruben(uncredited)
  • Norman Taurog(uncredited)
• Writers
  • Elizabeth Reinhardt(screenplay)
  • Mary C. McCall Jr.(screenplay)
  • Wilson Collison(original story)
• Stars
  • Ann Sothern
  • Lee Bowman
  • Slim Summerville

  This third installment in MGM's "Maisie" series finds eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) stuck in a deserted mining camp. Here she links up with Davises, an impoverished migrant family which hopes to strike gold somewhere in the neighboring hills. Their efforts are resisted by hard-hearted local rancher Bill Anders (Lee Bowman), who orders the family off his property. With Maisie's assistance, the Davises are offered the opportunity to launch a cooperative farming project, with Anders' blessing. Evidently inspired by The Grapes of Wrath, Gold Rush Maisie is hardly in the same league, but it passes the time painlessly.