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It Happened to Jane (1959)

6.1 | May 24, 1959 (US) | Comedy, Romance | 01:37

It's bigger than all of us!

Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".

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Cast

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Doris Day
Jane Osgood
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Jack Lemmon
George Denham
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Ernie Kovacs
Harry Foster Malone
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Steve Forrest
Larry Hall
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Teddy Rooney
Billy Osgood
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Russ Brown
Uncle Otis
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Walter Greaza
Crawford Sloan
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Parker Fennelly
Homer Bean
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Mary Wickes
Matilda Runyon
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Philip Coolidge
Wilbur Peterson

Reviews

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John Chard
6 | Oct 03, 2015
Not quite a Lobster Newberg. Doris Day is an astute businesswoman who deals in the mass production of Lobsters. When her latest delivery goes awry due to incompetence of the E&P Railroad, she decided to take them on. All while affairs of the heart try to come into play. Nothing really wrong with the film as such, it's all very harmless, a pleasant romantic comedy, with a likable cast (Jack Lemmon & Ernie Kovacs join Day)to while away the time with. It's just not a very interesting story, one where the love arc plays second fiddle to a bunch of over cooked sequences elsewhere. Whilst what could have been a strong feminist front never quite gets driven home. 6/10