It Should Happen to You

film by Cukor [1954]

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  • George Cukor
    In George Cukor: Films of the 1950s

    It Should Happen to You (1954) starred Holliday in Kanin’s modern fairy tale about an ambitious model’s extraordinary efforts to get noticed in New York City.

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Holliday

  • Judy Holliday in Kanin's Born Yesterday
    In Judy Holliday

    …in Lemmon’s first two films, It Should Happen to You (1954) and Phffft! (1954). She returned to Broadway in November 1956, where her old colleagues Comden and Green had tailored for her the female lead in the musical Bells Are Ringing, for which she won the Tony Award for best…

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Kanin

  • Garson Kanin
    In Garson Kanin: Screenplays, theatrical work, and novels

    …Kanin wrote such screenplays as It Should Happen to You (1954) and The Rat Race (1960; based on his play and novel of the same name). He also penned several scripts for the small screen, including Hardhat and Legs (1980), a TV movie that was his final collaboration with Gordon,…

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Lemmon

  • Jack Lemmon
    In Jack Lemmon

    were opposite Judy Holliday in It Should Happen to You and Phffft! (both 1954). His Academy Award-winning performance as Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts (1955) firmly established him as one of the screen’s brightest new comic actors. He went on to deliver solid performances in other comedies, including My Sister…

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