On paper this must have seemed a pretty good bet, after all Little Man Takes On The Big Guys is always good for a premise so Little GAL takes on the Big Guys must be worth twice the money; cast Doris Day as the little Gal and you're rounding third while the ball's still climbing and how about that new guy Lemmon to co-star. Jeez! What a GREAT idea; he made his movie DEBUT in It Should Happen To You so Lemmon in a movie with Happen(ed) in the title is a lead-pipe cinch. If only. Somehow there's just no chemistry between Day and Lemmon although both are fine individually and Ernie Kovacs is really OTT as the cut-out cartoon heavy who has a completely unrealistic volte face in the last reel. The idea of an ordinary housewife capturing the hearts of the public was sound enough for Day to repeat it much more successfully in The Thrill Of It All a few years later. This is just about up to one viewing but that's it.
Review of It Happened to Jane
