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Bookmark this pageIt Should Happen to You (1953)
Director: George Cukor
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From Time Out Film Guide
One of Judy Holliday's delicious dumb blonde performances as the nobody despairing of being somebody who makes it by splashing her savings on splashing her name across a billboard in Manhattan. Garson Kanin's script doesn't really bite hard enough in its satire of TV and its eager promotion of the nonentity celebrity, nor - after a wonderful opening - does the comedy have anywhere much to go. Bright moments and irresistible performances, though, with Lemmon (in his debut) making a superb foil for Holliday as the solemn documentary film-maker who observes, loves and is baffled by her.Author: TM
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- psnyder said...
- Posted on May 02 2010 03:20 Judy Holliday is terrific, and it's wonderful to Lemmon in his first movie role. The movie also gives us an unself-conscious window in 1954 America in the early days of TV and Madison Avenue. Did I say, I love Judy Holliday?
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Cast & crew
Director: George Cukor
Producer: Fred Kohlmar
Cast: Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Connie Gilchrist, Michael O'Shea, Vaughn Taylor, Walter Klavun, Whit Bissell full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 86 mins
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