Maid's Night Out is a 1938

1938 in film

The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. Ray Bolger is cast as the "Tinman" and Buddy Ebsen is cast as the "Scarecrow". At Bolger's insistence,...

 American romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

 made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed

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 by Ben Holmes

Ben Holmes

Ben Holmes was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 56 films between 1929 and 1944...

 from a screenplay

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 by Bert Granet

Bert Granet

Bert Granet was a writer and television producer, including producing films such as The Locket for RKO Radio Pictures....

, adapted by from the radio play Certified (also produced by RKO) by Willoughby Speyers.

The film stars Allan Lane

Allan Lane

Allan "Rocky" Lane was a studio leading man and the star of many cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s. He appeared in more than 125 films and TV shows in a career lasting from 1929 to 1966...

, Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine

Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland , known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. She and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s....

 and William Brisbane.

The film was made in Black and White.

Plot

Bill Norman (Allan Lane) wishes to go on a six-month tropical expedition being organised by his millionaire father (George Irving), who agrees subject to him spending 30 days working as a lowly milkman. Norman enthusiastically takes to the task of delivering "Arlen Milk". On his route he meets Sheila Harrison (Joan Fontaine), whom he thinks is her family's maid, but is in fact a débutante. (Harrison's family has fallen on hard times and must "live within their means".) Harrison's family want her to marry wealthy Wally Martin (William Brisbane), but Harrison would rather be with Lane the "milkman". Meanwhile, Norman has fallen for the "maid", but his father will have none of it.