It Happened to Jane ** (1959, Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs) – Classic Movie Review 7692

Doris Day plays Jane Osgood, the lobster lady from Maine who gets her lawyer George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to fight mean railway boss Harry Malone (Ernie Kovacs), who will not deliver her lobsters to her business on time.

Producer-director Richard Quine’s 1959 It Happened to Jane is a virtually forgotten movie, and it is not too special, though the stars give appealing performances and Kovacs’s over-the-top bad guy keeps the eye attentive.

Norman Karkov’s indifferent screenplay is the problem. It all too soon runs out of steam and gags. Day sings the title song ‘It Happened to Jane’ (words and music by Joe Lubin and I J Roth) and ‘Be Prepared’ (music by Fred Karger, lyrics by Richard Quine).

Despite the two big stars, and admired director, this little remembered film is rarely screened.

Also in the cast are Steve Forrest, Mary Wickes, Teddy Rooney, Russ Brown, Walter Greaza Phillip Coolidge, Parker Fennelly, Casey Adams, John Cecil Holm, Gina Gillespie, Dick Crockett, Bob Paige and Harry Morgan.

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