{"id":3186,"date":"2005-10-10T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/10\/10\/3186.html"},"modified":"2005-10-10T01:25:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:25:20","slug":"review-it-should-happen-to-you-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/10\/10\/review-it-should-happen-to-you-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: It Should Happen to You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I've been hearing for years about It Should Happen to You<\/a><\/cite>: directed by George (My Fair Lady<\/cite>, Philadelphia Story<\/cite>) Cukor, starring Judy Holliday; Jack Lemmon's debut film. I was intrigued by the plot summary that mentioned Holliday's character (Gladys Glover) deciding to put her name on a billboard, and the Stanford Theatre<\/a> schedule always described the movie in glowing terms.<\/p>\n

Also, I used the movie's title in passing in my 1997 column \"What They Did: The Movie<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n

So last Thursday evening, I noticed that it was the last day of the movie's latest run at the Stanford, so Kam and I went to see it.<\/p>\n

Turned out to be a lot of fun. I had been trepidatious (even though it turns out that's not a word) because the last Lemmon movie I saw, The Apartment<\/cite>, didn't do much for me. (And because this one was double-featuring with Some Like It Hot<\/cite>, which I didn't like much when I saw it--we skipped that, but I worried that if they were double-featuring, they might share a sense of humor.) But Lemmon was charming in this (even if his arguments with Gladys did conflate two different notions--it's best to be part of the crowd, and if you make a name for yourself it should stand for something--and I only agreed with one of those notions), and he and Holliday were fun to watch together.<\/p>\n

I'm not a big fan of humor of humiliation\/embarrassment<\/a>, and there were a couple of brief bits that I winced at in this movie. But what mostly kept it from being humor of humiliation (from my point of view, anyway) was that Glover had a solid core of self-worth and strength. What she wanted to do was sometimes silly, but she stood her ground when it was important to her, and I ended up with more respect for the \"dumb blonde\" character than for all the various people who tried to push her around.<\/p>\n

Movie overall is funny and charming. Recommended.<\/p>\n

And it had the nice side effect of reminding me how much I like Lemmon when I like him. It made me want to go find a copy of Tribute<\/a><\/cite> to watch; we watched that when I was a kid, and I remember liking it a lot, and I think Peter and Jay liked it a lot as well. The IMDB isn't so kind to it, so maybe I wouldn't like it so much now, but I'll keep an eye out for it anyway. Sadly, Netflix doesn't have it.<\/p>\n

Btw, coming up soon at the Stanford: a Ronald Colman<\/a> film festival. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing it'll include at least The Prisoner of Zenda<\/cite> (yay!), Lost Horizon<\/cite>, and A Tale of Two Cities<\/cite>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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