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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303011363 Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303011365 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: June 24, 1994 Running Time: 86 minutes Sales Rank: 31587 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1954
Amazon.com: All Gladys Glover wants is to make a name for herself in New York--which explains the giant billboard with her name plastered across it. Celebrity, of course, follows. It Should Happen to You proves that the concept of "being famous for being famous" did not arrive with Angelyne or Paris Hilton. This comedy was designed for the dumb-blonde talents of the expert Judy Holliday, re-uniting with Born Yesterday writer Garson Kanin and director George Cukor. She's in prime form, and some of her scenes with Jack Lemmon (his film debut) have a spritzy give-and-take. (Alas, his character, a documentary filmmaker, is a bit of a nag.) The media satire is a little dated, from a 21st-century perspective, and a subplot with soap magnate Peter Lawford doesn't wash. The pleasures are in Cukor's airy Manhattan location shots and Holliday's offbeat line readings, her lasting gift from a brief career. --Robert Horton
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Rating: - The Average American Girl
It Should Happen to You is the story of a wannabe model named Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) who is sick of her career going nowhere. She takes matters into her own hands after a pep talk from Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon) and rents a billboard on Columbus Avenue. She uses it to publicize herself putting just her name in giant letters. Nothing seems to happen, except she is asked to sell the billboard to a large company. Evan Adams the third (Peter Lawford) attempts to wine and dine Gladys into selling. She finally agrees, but only when she recieves eight more billboards to replace the one she loses. ... Read More
Rating: - Romantic comedy of innocent daft (recommended)
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. ... Read More
Rating: - Buyer Beware - Fake Widescreen Presentaion
The aspect ratio is fake.
The top and bottom of the regular full screen version has been cropped out of the picture to give the illusion your getting a widescreen - what your getting is less picture!
The studios should label the DVD's as they did when they cropped VHS video picture " this film has been modified to fit you tv screen" as in modified to fit a 16x9 tv in this case.
You have already lost one third of the picture when it was modified to full screen, now you loose an additional one third to one fourth of the movies image!
The reason leterbox and widescreen has a demand, ... Read More
Rating: - Cukor and Holliday at their best
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 ... Read More
Rating: - wonderful classic Judy Holliday at her best!
I watched this as a double-header with another film by the great Judy Holliday, probably her most well-known performance in BORN YESTERDAY, for which she won a much-deserved Academy Award for Best Actress. IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU may not be as well-known, but it certainly should be. Judy's comedic genius as "the dumb blonde" is showcased here, brilliantly. She was definitely a comic GENIUS, and more people need to see this film to get a glimpse into the artistic talent of a woman who, perhaps, was the smartest "dumb blonde" in film history, who used her deceptive "dimwittedness" as a ruse to successfully turn ... Read More
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