Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We watched two TCM films on TV last night, part of a group of "Maisie" movies from the 1940s starring Ann Southern.  I vaguely knew the name, but was attracted to the title, because my mother was often called Maisie, when she wasn't just May.  These are "B" movies, but fun comedies and they were so successful at the time that eight or nine were made.  Ann Southern is irresistible in the two we saw.  She's opinionated, speaks her mind, tells people "what's what" and so adorably and with so much verve that she's a heroine.  Snappy repartee and pretty good scripts give her the room she needs to take over the screen.  She won't shut up, and gets rewarded for it every time.  Of course she gets her man, and he is putty in her hands.  Ah, the good old days, when women could mouth off and cut their men down to size.  Like Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, Maisie holds her own and teaches everyone else a lesson.  She's an awful busybody, but she's always right.  I'd say she's a better role model than Wonder Woman, and with no special powers, just smarts.