Stars: Peter Lawford, Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon
This was Holliday's 4th film with George Cukor and her 3rd film with a Garson Kanin (screenwriter). (It certainly helped an actress to have "friends in high places"). Its a placid, droll, comedy that tackles the issue of fame and celebrity. Holliday re-plays her Born Yesterday "dumb blond"persona but with more charm & realism. Lawford and Lemmon add adequate support. This was Lemmon's first big role, and it shows, his comedic timing seems a little off. Pleasant enough time-waster, with nothing to justify Bosley Crowther's over-the-top praise in 1954:
The Foundation for the Perpetuation of Garson Kanin, George Cukor and Judy Holliday as a comedy film-making combination should receive another million or two on the strength of their latest creation, "It Should Happen to You." This lark, from the workshop of Columbia, which opened yesterday at Loew's State, is a neat piece of comic contrivance that will contribute to the joy of man. Neat, you will note we say; not gaudy. In the simple, old-fashioned movie size, it is a tickling and touching entertainment with intelligence, compassion—and lots of gags.
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