Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

jacobs-greenwood Directed by George Cukor, with a story and screenplay by three time Oscar nominated writer Garson Kanin, this above average comedy stars the uniquely talented Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, and Jack Lemmon in his screen debut (showing signs of his "outburst ability" for which he'd become famous)! It also earned Jean Louis one of his many Best (B&W) Costume Design Oscar nominations.In today's "celebrity culture", where it seems everyone is striving to find their "15 minutes of fame", this film's surprisingly up-to- date plot touches on the costs associated with achieving it. Because it's a comedy, not a drama, and because it was produced at a time when "feel good" Hollywood endings were the norm, if not a requirement, it's "cop out" ending is one of the film's few failings. Plus, I'm pretty sure this film would not have worked very well at all without Ms. Holliday and the "quirky, innocent, naive, seemingly dizzy yet fairly smart and proud" quality that she brought to her too few roles.Gladys Glover (Holliday) has just lost her job when she meets documentary film-maker Pete Sheppard (Lemmon) in Central Park, New York City. She's from a small town in upstate New York and is feeling pretty down about her two year stint where she failed to make an impression on anyone. Sheppard, who's still not entirely comfortable with the environment either, even after living there 12 years, commiserates with Gladys and actually makes her feel better - he's said something that makes an impression with her. After they've gone their separate ways, Gladys sits and removes her shoes, which helps her to think, while she takes in her surroundings. Her eyes fall upon an empty billboard and she imagines her name, in various configurations, upon it. She makes note of the advertising agency who's renting the sign and the next thing you know she's bought a three month contract, spending $630 of her $1,000 nest egg, to have "Gladys Glover" in 6 foot letters on Columbus Circle. Vaughn Taylor plays the man who sells it to her.Once the sign is correctly installed, Gladys sits and admires it before returning to her apartment and finding Pete sitting on the front steps. They're glad to see each other and apparently he's rented the apartment down the hall from hers. Connie Gilchrist plays their landlord. She tries to point out the sign to him, partially visible from her apartment window, but he doesn't see it. She urges him to go to the square where they'd first met and look around, and they make a date for later in the week.Meanwhile, Evan Adams III (Lawford) has discovered that his ad agency has already rented the sign on Columbus Circle, which is always used for his soap company's summer campaign. So, they call Gladys in assuming they can buy it back from her for the 2 ½ months remaining on her contract by reimbursing her and adding a $500 profit (the recognizable Whit Bissell plays one of the ad executives). They learn otherwise. Even though the rich, attractive Evan wines and dines Gladys, and takes her dancing at a fancy place where she sees half a dozen or more famous people, he is unable to make a deal for her sign until he offers to put her name on several other signs throughout the city.Pete is upset with Gladys "celebrity obsession", which is exacerbated when they go shopping at Macy's (Frank Nelson and Cora Witherspoon, uncredited are salespersons), across from one of her new signs, and is mobbed by autograph seekers once they learn her name. Though they had been developing a relationship of sorts, Pete is getting fed up and lectures Gladys that her name should mean, or stand for something.However, the signs have attracted the attention of TV commentator Brod Clinton (Michael O'Shea), whose "on air" insults of her prompt a call by Gladys which leads to him working as her agent, for a percentage of course, in exploitation.What happens next has become commonplace today: Gladys appears on a series of television shows including a "Dear Abby" like program with Constance Bennett, Ilka Chase, and Wendy Barrie appearing as themselves alongside Dr. Manning (Melville Cooper). Additionally, Evan's soap company promotes her as the American girl to sell their products.Eventually, Gladys tires of the whole affair and she comes to the realization that Pete's lecture was sage advice when a pseudo military outfit wants to name their airplane after her. Gladys returns to her apartment to find that Pete has moved out, of his apartment and her life, and has left a "goodbye" documentary for her to view. In it, Pete details the loss of her soul and his inability to compete for her affections with the likes of Evan (even though he doesn't know that she's spurned his advances).Inevitably, this leads Gladys out of her haze and she decides to "go back to" Pete, who accepts her back (all too) willingly, of course.

David One of the reasons I didn't know this film must be the terrible, forgettable title. However, it's a lovely film. What a debut for Jack Lemmon! Assured, slick, great timing. Pete Sheppard was the only character that didn't verge on caricature. Judy Holliday is great as the scatty, crazy, fame-seeker, and just about convinces as Gladys' character develops. Flimsy plot, but a subject worth dealing with: the pointlessness of fame for its own sake. Current generation of kids, take note!Nice shots of 1950s New York and portrayal of the excitement of live TV broadcasting.

Goodbye_Ruby_Tuesday IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU! is perhaps the most ironic film title ever in cinema, since the film examines the downside of being famous. I suppose it makes a good marketing ploy, directly addressing the audience, but it's so false that the only way it could ever work is either 1. as a satire or 2. referring to having the amazing Jack Lemmon (in his film debut) as a boyfriend.IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU! follows down-and-out model Gladys Glover who wants to be "somebody" at whatever cost, so she splurges her savings to rent a billboard just to put her name on it. After some entanglements over who gets the space, she becomes a celebrity over ludicrous circumstances. Her sweet documentary-filmmaker boyfriend Pete just wants her anonymous, wonderful self, and is understandably hurt when Gladys turns down dates in order to advance her "career." It is at the peak of her fame that she realizes that her celebrity is everything she's never wanted.This is a film that could've fallen apart with so many other directors, but George Cukor was a master at that light comedic touch that keeps the movie sparkling, and also shows an early promise of the sharp look at celebrity that would be even more piercing with A STAR IS BORN only a year later. This was his third collaboration with Judy Holliday, and they seem to be among that elite group of a successful bonding between actor/director. The role of Gladys could so easily come off as unlikable (and she is at times in a naive way) during her determined rise to fame. The reason why the character is so endearing is because of Holliday's childishly wondrous performance, which captivates and enlightens. Her scenes with Jack Lemmon are magical, especially in that scene where they're both at the piano, he's talking, she's singing. It's marvelous and even exciting to see two actors with such an easy cadence interacting together, and those two had a very effortless chemistry. One of the main characters that I'd doubt will stir up much is attention is the provincial village of New York City itself, which is so beautifully photographed by Charles Lang it's as though you've walked into a postcard. From the opening romantic scene in Central Park to even the second-unit shots of Columbus Circle, this is a great example of a city becoming so integrated with a film it's impossible to imagine one without the other.Andy Warhol once predicted that "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU! deconstructs the mystique of celebrity and also accurately confirms Warhol's statement, which continues to be true with every new season of "American Idol." While many other films may have been sharper and harsher in their aim, few were this funny and warm-hearted with their characters.

evanston_dad 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