Judy Holliday
Gladys Glover
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It Should Happen to You is a 1954 American romantic comedy film starring Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford and Jack Lemmon; it was Lemmon's first major film appearance. The film was directed by George Cukor, and partly filmed on location in New York City.
A young woman rents a billboard to advertise herself and becomes a public figure overnight. She attracts the attention of a filmmaker and a playboy, but struggles with the fame and the media.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- George Cukor
- 1954-03
After two years of failing to make it big in New York City, small-town model and actress Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) takes a gamble by investing in billboard advertising to get her name...
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- Judy Holliday
- George Cukor
- Comedy
Apr 16, 2024 · In “It Should Happen to You”, Holliday uniquely blends overwhelming innocence with feeling insignificant, which adds comedy and pathos at the same time. There are tinges of both when she interacts with the receptionist at the Horace Pfeiffer Company, or how she’s lost yet determined when meeting with the billboard salesman.
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.
It Should Happen to You. Summaries. When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight. Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park.
A model who wants to be famous rents a billboard with her name on it and gets involved in a political scandal. Watch the trailer, cast and crew, and trivia of this classic comedy directed by George Cukor and starring Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon.
