It Happened to Jane
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Actor: Doris Day, Ernie Kovacs, Jack Lemmon, Steve Forrest, Teddy RooneyBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of It Happened to Jane
Movie Review: Today's the "Day"!
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally, the movie we've been waiting for is out on DVD! It didn't even get a video release, I have no idea why. Maybe the rights were tied up in some arcane way.
Richard Quine made many delightful films and in particular he must have been in love with Kim Novak for he made her look divine in many of their pictures together, but here he works the same magic on Doris Day, whose blonde beauty is a very different kettle of fish than Novak's. Quine's comic genius is evident in every scene in this film, whether it's Doris getting mad at Jack Lemmon, blowing her bangs up over her forehead in her patented double-take, or posing Doris next to a troop of little Boy Scouts and teaching them to "Be Prepared," a number which nowadays smacks of the Mary Kay LeTourneau school of pedagogy. However it's a great song and the orchestrations for this (and the title number, "It Happened to Jane") have that lush Nelson Riddle sound that totally matches Doris Day's creamy, luscious voice. She's a lovely, determined single mother here, who routinely puts off Jack Lemmon's proposals of marriage in order to get more fishing time in. Between this movie and the one where Arthur Godfrey runs the GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, Doris and fishing lines are inextricably entangled.
I usually don't like Ernie Kovacs in the movies, thinking that he's more a small screen TV type of star, but he is very effective in JANE, and he plays a good foil for both Doris and for Jack Lemmon. He's the great railroad tycoon who threatens to tear up the state of Maine in a variation of the old Western theme.
The color is bright and crisp, I just wish they had included some deleted scenes. My grandmother used to say that this movie used to be called, "Plain Jane," and they changed the title because Melcher didn't want Doris to be featured in a movie that called her "plain"! No fear in this movie where she still looks young, and radiant. One of her best.
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