It Happened to Jane (1959)
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51% of users liked it
(904 ratings)
Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages her own lobster business, and the railroad has just trashed a shipment, killing them off before they could ever be properly boiled to death for someone's dinner. Jane… More Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages her own lobster business, and the railroad has just trashed a shipment, killing them off before they could ever be properly boiled to death for someone's dinner. Jane commissions her lawyer (and potential romantic partner) George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to take on the railroad and its nefarious owner, Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs). Thus, the battle between the unjustly treated Jane and the arrogant railroad boss begins. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- Richard Quine
- Written By
- Norman Katkov
- Genres
- Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 5, 1959 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
An amiable but stiff populist comedy that should have been funnier since it starred the talented Doris Day, Jack Lemon and Ernie Kovaks.
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
A likeable cast just can't salvage this utterly inconsequential romantic comedy...
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Cast
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Doris Day
as Jane Osgood
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Jack Lemmon
as George Denham
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Ernie Kovacs
as Harry Foster Malone
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Steve Forrest
as Larry Hall
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Teddy Rooney
as Billy Osgood
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Russ Brown
as Uncle Otis
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Parker Fennelly
as Homer Bean
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Mary Wickes
as Matilda Runyon
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Philip Coolidge
as Wilbur Peterson
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Casey Adams
as Selwyn Harris
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John Cecil Holm
as Aaron Caldwell
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Gina Gillespie
as Betty Osgood
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Dick Crockett
as Clarence Runyon
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Napoleon Whiting
as Porter
- Bill Cullen
- Dave Garroway
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Walter Greaza
as Crawford Sloan
- Jayne Meadows
- Garry Moore
- Henry Morgan
- Bess Myerson
- Betsy Palmer
