It Should Happen to You (1954) on Netflix
Approved19541h 26mComedyRomance
Gladys Glover has lost her modeling job and still has no fame in New York City. She meets documentary maker Pete Sheppard and spends her savings on a billboard showing her name.
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Plot summary
Gladys Glover came to New York City from upstate less than two years ago to make a name for herself, and she has just been fired from her job as a girdle model. In Central Park she meets Pete Sheppard, a documentary maker, who is drawn to her. Gladys uses her life savings to rent a big billboard overlooking Columbus Circle and puts nothing on it but her name, for three months. Pete thinks the idea means nothing. The Adams Soap company usually books that spot for its summer advertising, and Evan Adams III first offers Gladys money for it, then six other signs in exchange. She accepts.
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- Robert Bergeras Board Member (uncredited)
- Leo Curleyas Board Member (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about It Should Happen to You (1954)
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- Lemmon had a contentious meeting with studio boss Harry Cohn, who feared critics might use jokes about the name "Lemmon" in headlines panning the film and wanted him to change it to "Lennon". Lemmon countered that people might then confuse his name with "Lenin" and tie him to communism, a legitimate concern in the 1950s.
- The script was first meant as a vehicle for Danny Kaye, but the screenwriter Garson Kanin's wife, Ruth Gordon, suggested casting Judy Holliday in the part instead.
