It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You

1954 | 1h 27m | Comedy, Satire | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

A poor model from a small town comes to New York with big ambitions.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

George Cukor

CAST

Judy Holliday

Jack Lemmon

Peter Lawford

Michael O'Shea

Vaughn Taylor

PRODUCERS

Fred Kohlmar

WRITERS

Garson Kanin

Garson Kanin

Host Intros

01:55
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- It Should Happen To You (1953)
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Ben Mankiewicz introduces It Should Happen To You, 1953.
02:18
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- It Should Happen To You (1953)
Intro Aired: Jul 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces It Should Happen To You, 1953.
01:37
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- It Should Happen To You (1954)
Intro Aired: Nov 2015
Ben Mankiewicz introduces It Should Happen To You, 1954.
02:33
Robert Osborne Intro -- It Should Happen To You (1954)
Intro Aired: Oct 2015
Robert Osborne introduces It Should Happen To You, 1954.

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It Should Happen To You (1954) -- (Movie Clip) My Right Arm
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Shortly after their chance meeting, film-maker Pete (Jack Lemmon) and newly-unemployed model Gladys (Judy Holliday) in Columbus Circle, where she fantasizes, in It Should Happen To You, 1954.
It Should Happen To You (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Her?
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Casually glancing at her billboard, Gladys (Judy Holliday) and Pete (Jack Lemmon) experience her first sighting as a celebrity, inside Macy's, in George Cukor's It Should Happen To You, 1954.
It Should Happen To You (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Nobody, That's Who!
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The opening to the George Cukor-directed and Garson Kanin-scripted contemplation on celebrity, It Should Happen To You, 1954, starring Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, and writer Heywood Hale Broun as a bum in the park.
It Should Happen To You (1954) -- (Movie Clip) And Furthermore!
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As cynical suitor Adams (Peter Lawford) departs, neighbor Pete (Jack Lemmon) decides he has misgivings about Gladys (Judy Holliday) and her billboard, in George Cukor's It Should Happen To You, 1954.
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It Should Happen to You - (Original Trailer)
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A dizzy model (Judy Holliday) in love with fame rents a billboard and puts her name on it in It Should Happen to You (1954) co-starring Jack Lemmon.

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