Memorable, crazy movie

Crappy film

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Why couldn't Judy Holliday sing the lovely songs in their entirety? She had a gifted voice. Instead, we only get partial lines.That being said, we have a very good comedy here with Judy Holliday, as Gladys Glover, losing her job as a model of girdles and walking in the park where she meets up with documentary film-maker Jack Lemmon. Lemmon encourages an upset Holliday who gets the idea to rent a billboard over Columbus Circle with her name. She soon meets up with a cad, the usually suave Peter Lawford, the latter wanting the sign for his soap business.The film is then devoted to competition for the affection of Holliday by both men, though in the case for Lawford, it's more for business.As Holliday gains notoriety, she still isn't happy and this just shows that money isn't everything.Connie Gilchrist is wasted here as the landlady who reminds Lemmon to pay his rent by Friday at 5P.M.

This is supposedly Jack Lemmon's first starring role and from the moment he appears you know it's going to be a great picture. (How ironic that such a great actor should debut using a movie camera!) Add to that the spark of Judy Holliday and the sparks start flying like a diamond in the sunlight. But, sadly, they are black and white sparks.Hopefully, that won't be offputting to too many people. But I'm afraid it will be. It's genuinely funny and endearing. Perfectly cast as you hate Peter Lawford for the skank I've always felt he was and immediately fall for Lemmon and Holliday. But because of one stupid decision to make the picture in black and white when (in 1954) it was common to make color movies...Especially when the script and stars are so colorful. Well, it's sad.So watch it, enjoy it and let the color of love at first sight brighten it up for you in spite of the lousy idea to shoot it in black and white.

Jack Lemmon's feature film debut came in this sprightly comedy about getting 15 minutes of fame before Andy Warhol ever coined the phrase. With writing by Garson Kanin and direction by George Cukor, It Should Happen To You takes on the quality of a can't miss proposition.Cukor and Kanin are reunited with Judy Holliday and that trio gave us Born Yesterday four years earlier. Unlike in Born Yesterday, Judy's not a kept woman, in fact she wishes she was. She's just lost her modeling job and she commiserates with Jack Lemmon during a chance meeting in Central Park. Things would sure be a lot different if she was a celebrity, her name big as life on that billboard at Columbus Circle. The eternal light bulb goes off in her head. Judy takes all the money she has in the world and rents that billboard, splashing her character name, Gladys Glover, big as life all over Columbus Circle. Because that board is desired by advertising executive Peter Lawford, a peculiar combination of circumstances give Judy the celebrity she so craves. But is it really what she wants?Garson Kanin had some really brilliant things to say here about the difference between lasting fame and celebrity. Although the smooth talking Peter Lawford and the roughhewn Broderick Crawford from Born Yesterday are about as opposite in personality as you can get, both are really the same kind of ruthless people in getting who and what they want.Lemmon is third billed in the film behind Holliday and Lawford. But he functions in the same way, as Holliday's conscience and teacher. In the other film Holden teaches her about how bad Crawford is, in It Should Happen to You, he makes Judy see how her own values are so wrong.Best scene in the film is when Judy is on a panel show with real life celebrities Constance Bennett, Ilka Chase, and Wendy Barrie all playing themselves with Melville Cooper as a pompous doctor. Judy's blank expressions are priceless as the celebrities gossip, even better than the inane dialog she's given. There's also a nice performance by Michael O'Shea as a sleazy talk show host.Though It Should Happen To You covers a lot of the same ground as Born Yesterday, the lessons certainly bear repeating. I'd definitely try to catch this one and the on scene filming in Fifties New York definitely aid the story.It's the difference between Madame Marie Curie and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Sometimes i heard the name of Judy Holliday. But i had never seen her work. Suddenly, a lovely comedy appeared."It should happen to you" tell us about the real dreams, and the false dreams. Gladys Glover, is a name difficult to forget. Our charming character wants to be somebody, and she try to make reality that dream. But she makes it in the mistaken way. Because, maybe is more important the real love of a man than a fake illusion. The illusion of be famous.Since the naked feet in the park, "It should happen to you" is a great comedy. A comedy about the love, the dreams and ... of course ... big billboards with names.Recommended for any occasion. Especially, if you want to see a real comedy.*sorry, if there any mistake there