Film

Judy Holliday reteams with Born Yesterday writer Garson Kanin for one of Hollywood’s finest send-ups of the New York rat race. After two years of unsuccessfully trying to make her mark as a model, a small-town fame-seeker (Holliday) takes encouragement from a struggling documentarian (Lemmon, in his first screen appearance) she meets in Central Park. Deciding to buy her way to stardom, she blows all her savings on getting her face plastered on a giant Columbus Circle billboard, but soon finds herself entangled with the womanizing owner of a soap company whose ad space she’s just purchased. Featuring an irresistibly sweet Holliday-Lemmon duet of the standard “Let’s Fall in Love,” It Should Happen to You brings out the wit, warmth, and humanity behind the brilliant comedienne’s dumb-blonde act.