This movie's too stellar to be ignored just because it shows up on the tube and could be seen as an artifact from the distant fifties -- er, of the last century.
"It Should Happen To You" is a delicious early look at the phenomenon of celebrity -- an seemingly-innocent look at a phenomenon that has come to have much more serious implications since it first emerged. It's about being well known, how to be well known, about what really matters. It is also about the birth of television.
Not to mention a chance to see Jack Lemmon in the infancy of his distinguished career and to delight in Judy Holliday's complex reading of a comic role with serious undertones.
Gladys Glover places a sign and then many signs with nothing but her name around Manhattan. The whole thing unfolds from her desire to make a name for herself. I won't unveil the events. I only want to flag the title for those who may be interested in the subject -- or those who like quality entertainment -- or those who like to see what Manhattan looked like back then.
The movie is really a satirical masterpiece. It only has three stars in Leonard Maltin's movie-video opus. I give it five Epinions stars. It belongs with "Network" and "A Face in the Crowd" as a smart look at how appearance became reality -- before McCluhan tried to spell it out.
Somehow I relate the film to Madonna, but I am not sure why.
Can an aspiring model find happiness on a billboard?! That's what Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) finds out in this delightful romantic comedy. Unable...More at Walmart
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