It Happened To Jane

Starring: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon Dvd Release: 4th April, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English, Hindi

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Doris Day was nearing her popular zenith, & Jack Lemmon just hitting his stride, when they teamed up for It Happened to Jane, a small-town comedy in the Capra vein. Doris is a widowed mom whose Maine lobster business is snarled by railroad tycoon Ernie Kovacs , the meanest man in America. Her lawsuit against him, aided by lawyer-suitor Lemmon, gains national headlines. This is a curious movie: crucial scenes seem to have been left unwritten, while sequences involving Cub Scouts & an oddly impassioned Town Hall Meeting go on endlessly. Director Richard Quine was making some fun movies around this time , but the fizz is only intermittent here, mostly provided by Lemmons jack-in-the-box youthfulness. Doris sings a couple of tunes & brings her downhome tomboy routine to New York City, where the movie employs some of the quaint TV personalities of the day.

Doris Day is an American singer, actress & animal welfare advocate. A vivacious blonde with a wholesome image, she was one of the most prolific actresses of the 1950s & 1960s. The second of two children, she was named Doris after silent movie actress Doris Kenyon, whom her mother liked. Her family was Catholic, despite her parents divorce. She later embraced Christian Science. Day started out as a dancer, winning a contract that enabled her to travel to Hollywood with her partner, Jerry Doherty, in 1936, but turned to singing when she injured her leg in an auto accident in 1937. She was a singer with the big bands of Barney Rapp, Bob Crosby & Les Brown before setting out on her own in the late 1940s. It was Barney Rapp who convinced her that Kappelhoff was too awkward a name & suggested Day after the song Day after Day that was part of her repertoire. She never really liked the name Doris Day, thinking it sounded too much like a stripper; this was ironic, since she eventually became associated with a nearly opposite image of wholesomeness & innocence. Posters Of Doris Day

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Jack Uhler Lemmon III was a consummate Hollywood actor. Born in Boston, Lemmons father was a successful businessman in the Boston area. Lemmon attended Harvard. Though divorced, he was a devoted father & one of the best-liked actors in Hollywood. Lemmon was a favorite of director Billy Wilder & did a series of films with Wilder, including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment & Irma La Douce. In June 2001, he died from cancer at the age of 76 & was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. Walter Matthau - his costar from several films - had also been buried at the cemetery. Some Like It Hot, with Marilyn Monroe & Tony Curtis. Glengarry Glen Ross, with Al Pacino, based on the play by David Mamet. Posters Of Jack Lemmon

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