Swing Shift Maisie (1943)

After she loses her job at a nightclub because of a pilot (James Craig), a showgirl (Ann Sothern) gets a job at a WWII aircraft factory. While she has a crush on the pilot, it's another girl (Jean Rogers) who catches the pilot's eyes. The seventh entry in the ten movie MAISIE franchise. The series was a popular moneymaker for MGM, so they cranked them out at the rate of one a year. This effort plays up the Rosie The Riveter angle with the emphasis on women on the home front doing their duty while the guys were off to war. It's engaging enough and there's a third major character: Jean Rogers as a manipulative self centered gold digger out to get Maisie's man. That's the main plot. Routine stuff but Ann Sothern's down to earth and wisecracking Maisie is intensely likable so one can see why audiences loved her. With Kay Medford, Connie Gilchrist, John Qualen and Jacqueline White.