It Should Happen to You
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Movie Reviews of It Should Happen to You
Movie Review: Charming and entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently saw the rebroadcast of an archival interview with George Cukor and he absolutely loved working with Judy Holliday. He valued her for her intelligence and he labeled her an intellectual. I know that an actor has to be sober to effectively portray a drunkard and so too, the highly intelligent Holliday effectively portrays a good natured but very ditzy character named Gladys Glover. If she wasn't so bright, she could not have effectively played such a ditzy character. Gladys wants to make a name for herself. She sees that there is prime billboard space available at Columus Circle in New York. That gives her an idea and you can guess what that idea is. Anyway, her name on one billboard gets parlayed into fame and there is a great satirical scene where people seek her autograph simply because her name is known.
Peter Lawford plays a potential love interest who is really interested in her for what she can mean to his corporation's bottom line. Her real love interest is Jack Lemon in his first role ever. In this early performance, we can see the seeds of the quirkiness that charcterized his movie career. This movie is delightful and I recommend it. Incidentally, there are great shots of Columbus Circle as it appeared in 1954. My!! How it has changed!
Movie Review: Romantic comedy of innocent daft (recommended)
Summary: 5 Stars
Though she hasn't quite figured out what comes next, Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) wants everyone to know her name. After meeting an infatuated photographer named Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemon in debut performance) while walking through Central Park, Gladys discovers a prominent billboard for rent. With her life savings, she has it plastered with "GLADYS GLOVER" to the chagrin of soap advertiser Evan Adams III (Peter Lawford). Failed negotiations for her prominent location lead to an offer of many more billboards in exchange for the one. The exposure is followed by television appearances, fame and fortune. Playboy Adams sees quite a different future for Glover -- one that interferes with Sheppard's courtship plans. Glover must then decide between fame and love.
More than half a century later I am discovering the charming antics of Judy Holliday in what is now my third DVD purchase. With considerable Broadway play performances in her career, Judy is quite comfortable on screen projecting innocent daft.
Movie quote: "I haven't changed. I'm the same as I was before - only in a different way."
Movie Review: IT SHOULD HAPPEN MORE OFTEN AT COLUMBIA STUDIOS!
Summary: 4 Stars
"It Should Happen To You" is the delightful, bubble-headed comedy about Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday), who decides that all one really needs to be famous is a gigantic billboard advertising her name in New York. Well, the trick works and before long Gladys has to choose between the affections of a rich businessman (Peter Lawford), who's romance is predicated on getting Gladys to sell him her advertising space, or a genuine romance with her simple-life boyfriend (Jack Lemmon). As Gladys, Holliday is once again in rare form, delivering the kind of light-hearted, idiotic, yet tender comedic touch that easily made her the darling of such classics as "Born Yesterday" and "The Solid Gold Cadillac". The film is great fun and absorbingly original from start to finish!TRANSFER: It should happen more often over at Columbia that they give DVD consumers such a nice looking print of their classic films. This film has a wonderfully smooth look to it, with deep blacks and a nicely balanced gray scale. The contrast levels seem to be subdued somewhat. There are rarely traces of film grain and NO digital artifacts or anomalies. The audio is mono but nicely done.
EXTRAS: Sorry - it's Columbia. You get a couple of trailers and that's all!
BOTTOM LINE: I don't know whether Columbia's finally realizing that DVD consumers want pristine versions of their classics on DVD, or if this film simply aged well in their studio vaults - either way, "It Should Happen To You" is a movie that should definitely find its way into your DVD library!
Movie Review: Cukor and Holliday at their best
Summary: 4 Stars
George Cukor's breezy comedy IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU features the lovely Judy Holliday in one of her greatest roles, as well as Jack Lemmon in his movie debut.
The story concerns a young woman named Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) whose compulsion for fame drives her to rent a billboard in Columbus Circle, on which her name is displayed for all to see. Pretty soon Gladys is known all over New York and she becomes an overnight celebrity. Gladys is also faced with a decision of the heart: a choice between her next-door-neighbour Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon) an amateur filmmaker who genuinely loves her; and suave businessman Evan Adams (Peter Lawford) who is only after her valuable billboard!
Fans of Judy Holliday won't be disappointed with this gem. The DVD presents the film in a sparkling anamorphic print, with the original trailer as the only extra. A talent taken from us too soon (just 10 years after this movie). Judy Holliday was definitely one-of-a-kind.
Movie Review: This sign reads: Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon
Summary: 4 Stars
Pete (Jack Lemmon) meets a blond lady, Gladys, in Central Park. She lost her job modeling girdles today. She wants to be somebody and has her dreams. She realizes she might have to marry the first or second guy that asks her.
Pete films documentaries, people and things of interest. Today is Gladys' lucky day because Pete just filmed her legs in the park. She sees an outside ad, a space for rent. She buys it and has her name painted on the huge billboard sign at Columbus Circle.
Just wait until you see what happens next!
Also in the cast: John Saxon, Peter Lawford, Frank Nelson, Whit Bissell, Constance Bennett, Wendy Barrie.
This is John Saxon as a boy in his first acting job. This is Jack Lemmon's first feature film.
Movie is in black & white.
Option of subtitles in English, Spanish, France.
DVD brought to you by Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment.
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