Waste of time

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Aspiring model comes to New York and concocts a novel idea to advertise herself - her name on billboards. This is a pleasant little comedy that benefits tremendously from the presence of Holliday. In fact, she's the whole show as the kooky blonde named Gladys Glover, a simple, good-hearted young lady who revels in her 15 minutes of fame. It is lamentable that the actress had such a brief career before her untimely death. Lemmon makes his film debut here, establishing the sensitive, hyperactive good-guy persona that he would go on to play variations of pretty much throughout his career. This was the last of a half-dozen films that Kanin and Cukor collaborated on.

Jack Lemmon's feature film debut came in this sprightly comedy about getting 15 minutes of fame before Andy Warhol ever coined the phrase. 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. She's just lost her modeling job and she commiserates with Jack Lemmon during a chance meeting in Central Park. Things would sure be a lot different if she was a celebrity, her name big as life on that billboard at Columbus Circle. The eternal light bulb goes off in her head. Judy takes all the money she has in the world and rents that billboard, splashing her character name, Gladys Glover, big as life all over Columbus Circle. Because that board is desired by advertising executive Peter Lawford, a peculiar combination of circumstances give Judy the celebrity she so craves. But is it really what she wants?Garson Kanin had some really brilliant things to say here about the difference between lasting fame and celebrity. Although the smooth talking Peter Lawford and the roughhewn Broderick Crawford from Born Yesterday are about as opposite in personality as you can get, both are really the same kind of ruthless people in getting who and what they want.Lemmon is third billed in the film behind Holliday and Lawford. But he functions in the same way, as Holliday's conscience and teacher. In the other film Holden teaches her about how bad Crawford is, in It Should Happen to You, he makes Judy see how her own values are so wrong.Best scene in the film is when Judy is on a panel show with real life celebrities Constance Bennett, Ilka Chase, and Wendy Barrie all playing themselves with Melville Cooper as a pompous doctor. Judy's blank expressions are priceless as the celebrities gossip, even better than the inane dialog she's given. There's also a nice performance by Michael O'Shea as a sleazy talk show host.Though It Should Happen To You covers a lot of the same ground as Born Yesterday, the lessons certainly bear repeating. I'd definitely try to catch this one and the on scene filming in Fifties New York definitely aid the story.It's the difference between Madame Marie Curie and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Sometimes i heard the name of Judy Holliday. But i had never seen her work. Suddenly, a lovely comedy appeared."It should happen to you" tell us about the real dreams, and the false dreams. Gladys Glover, is a name difficult to forget. Our charming character wants to be somebody, and she try to make reality that dream. But she makes it in the mistaken way. Because, maybe is more important the real love of a man than a fake illusion. The illusion of be famous.Since the naked feet in the park, "It should happen to you" is a great comedy. A comedy about the love, the dreams and ... of course ... big billboards with names.Recommended for any occasion. Especially, if you want to see a real comedy.*sorry, if there any mistake there

Judy Holliday struck gold in 1950 withe George Cukor's film version of "Born Yesterday," and from that point forward, her career consisted of trying to find material good enough to allow her to strike gold again.It never happened. In "It Should Happen to You" (I can't think of a blander title, by the way), Holliday does yet one more variation on the dumb blonde who's maybe not so dumb after all, but everything about this movie feels warmed over and half hearted. Even Jack Lemmon, in what I believe was his first film role, can't muster up enough energy to enliven this recycled comedy. The audience knows how the movie will end virtually from the beginning, so mostly it just sits around waiting for the film to catch up.Maybe if you're enamored of Holliday you'll enjoy this; otherwise I wouldn't bother.Grade: C