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...Should Happen to You. Judy Holliday in a sharp little Garson Kanin comedy about a girl on the make (TIME...
Eight years ago a starry-eyed young actress plodded across a Broadway stage, said humorously inane things in a squeaky voice and sent first night audiences into hysterics. Overnight Judy Holliday's Billie Dawn became the champion of America's dumb blonde segment. Even with an Oscar on her dresser and Born Yesterday entrenched in Broadway's list of Long Runs, Judy Holliday's brand of witlessness is still unalloyed in her new movie, It Should Happen...
...Miss Holliday and her two marquee running mates attempt to make up for what the plot lacks in coherence and pace. Playing a playboy with a turn for ear kissing, Peter Lawford is his usual suave self. Jack Lemmon breaks into celluloid as Gladys' camera happy boyfriend. The latter, star of the 1946 Pudding show, seems to have picked up a new habit of dress since leaving Harvard, but his acting ability is only hampered by some of the script's insipidly sentimental lines...
...Should Happen to You is pleasant entertainment though there are some dull stretches. Garson Kanin has proven that given Judy Holliday he can create a funny role. And Miss Holliday, with her vacant stare, indicates that gentlemen prefer blondes because some of them are pretty hilarious...
...Should Happen to You. Judy Holliday in a sharp little Garson Kanin comedy about a girl on the make (TIME...