AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

JohnHowardReid A hit in New York, a reasonable success in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, Baltimore and other big cities, but a flop almost everywhere else in the U.S.A., It Should Happen To You poses some interesting questions not only about picture tastes from capital to capital and city to country, but also about fame/notoriety and personal satisfaction/fulfillment.To deal with the former questions, this is a movie that could aptly be described as sophisticated. Often this word is loosely used to mean sexy or voyeuristic. To me sophistication implies a mental or physical activity that has little if anything to do with eating, dressing, fighting, loving or surviving. Most movies primarily concern themselves with at least one of these essentials and are therefore unsophisticated. The Cruel Sea, surviving. Breakfast at Tiffany's, loving. Gone With the Wind, all five.It Should Happen To You is not primarily concerned with loving, although romance enters into its plot and affects its outcome. Nor is it concerned with physical survival. Its heroine wants more than house and home, clothes and husband. She wants success, not the sort of success recognized by a farmer or businessman, but simply recognition.It's been my experience that people who live on the land or are immersed in their work or the simple daily struggle to raise a family or earn enough money for necessities, have great difficulty coming to any sort of terms with, let alone appreciation of the need for recognition, outside of an immediate family or close community level. As for an artistic viewpoint regarding life and living, this is beyond their ken altogether. Writers, artists, composers, sculptors, even scientists, researchers and inventors are necessarily "mad", unless what they are about has a close commercial application. A writer of best-selling pulp novels or a discoverer of cheap, non-polluting fuel who has sold his patents to a suppressing oil company, would be regarded as rare examples of artists and scientists fit to join the human race. The concept, "Art for art's sake", is incomprehensible.Having no sympathy with, or understanding of the heroine of It Should Happen To You, much of the rural or working-class audience cannot understand the plot's basic premise, let alone appreciate the sly digs at television and "fame". A pity because Judy Holliday as usual gives a great performance, virtually carrying the acting burden of the movie entirely on her own demure shoulders. True, she does receive good support, and Lemmon makes an appealing hero in a debut that is somewhat removed from his usual characterizations.As we might expect from Cukor, his handling is both fluent and culture-conscious. The most memorable sequence is that in which the typical TV panel show is mercilessly pilloried. When I saw the movie at a weekday matinee, few members of the largely shopping housewives audience laughed. Yet the manager told me that the opening Saturday night crowd had "rolled in the aisles".

Charles Herold (cherold) I have a friend who has always wanted to be famous. Not famous for doing something, like writing a novel or acting in a movie or robbing a bank, but simply for existing.Apparently, there have always been people like my friend, because It Should Happen to You is about a woman who comes up with a scheme for attaining fame unattached to greater purpose.This movie could be described as likable actors making unlikable characters likable. Holliday, who begins the movie by obliviously tossing bird on a man, is a narcissist. Lemmon is the guy who claims he loves her yet continually harangues her. And sure, Holliday's idea is nuts, but why does Lemmon continually attacks her dream, and, for that matter, why on earth does he like her?It is a tribute to Holliday that she manages to make it all work, exuding a mix of sex, innocence, softness and steel that suggests someone more interesting than the script is offering. Holliday is funny and likable, and for that reason I'd say this is worth watching.

Richard Burin There's always plenty going on beneath the surface of a Garson Kanin script. And here, as in the eternally underrated Tom, Dick and Harry and The Rat Race, his real subject is the American Dream. Judy Holliday, who originated the lead in Kanin's Born Yesterday on stage and won an Oscar for it on screen, plays Gladys Glover, a newly-unemployed model whose plan to make a name for herself involves just that: plastering her name across a Columbus Circle billboard. It brings her fame, but as beau Jack Lemmon suggests in one telling, prescient exchange, she hasn't done anything to warrant it. And anyway, isn't it OK to be part of the crowd? The dialogue is absolutely scintillating, the satire spot-on and the performances from Holliday and Lemmon (in his big screen debut) spectacular.

dougdoepke From the moment Lemmon makes his first appearance, we know a fresh comedic star has arrived. With more nervous tics than a first day kid at school, he and the ditsy Holliday make the perfect cute, funny couple. What an imaginative premise, too. Since everything else is advertised, why not put your own name up there on a billboard for all to see. That way, it gets passed around and you become famous for no good reason at all. Holliday is the perfect actress to pull a wacky shenanigan like that. I especially love it when that pack of smug businessmen pounce, figuring anyone who looks like that and sounds like that must be stupid—(note the meaningful feather jutting from her hat, ready to skewer the unwary). Of course, judging by appearance proves a big mistake as they soon find out. It's also the secret of her comedic success, as the tour-de-force The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) demonstrates in laugh-filled spades.Peter Lawford certainly looks the part of the predatory playboy with enough moussed hair to warrant a drilling platform. But his romantic scenes with Holliday plug up the pacing. Too bad, Ernie Kovacs didn't have the part—just the thought of Holliday and him in a romantic interlude opens up all sorts of rich possibilities. Also, I wonder what the satirically minded Frank Tashlin would have done with the advertising passages so ripe for his brand of spoofing. Nonetheless, Holliday's bright idea is way ahead of her time, considering all the no- talent celebrities clogging up today's headlines. Anyway, the movie remains a delight, thanks to two of the best comedic talents in the business. Fortunately, their stars will continue to shine wherever this charming little diversion is shown.