Garson Kanin's script here might not measure up to his best scripts like the classic Adams Rib and Born Yesterday, but with George Cukor directing, and a fine cast, this one is worth checking out. Judy Holliday as Gladys Glover, with Peter Lawford and Jack Lemmon in hot pursuit of her affections is a love triangle worthy of the screwball type of comedy that this is scripted for.
The plot has to do with Gladys wanting fame, and so she rents a billboard in downtown NYC and just puts her name on it in big letters. Then Lawford (Evan Adams III) wants the billboard Gladys has rented for 90 days and desperately makes a deal to get it by giving Gladys 6 other signs downtown. From there Glady's with the help of an agent spiral her to fame and fortune. Meanwhile Lemmon (Pete Sheppard), a documentary film maker who gets to know Gladys before the bill board but gives her the idea to do it, is also after her affections.
While Lawford is okay, Lemmon gets the better role here. His chemistry with Judy (Gladys) is better than Lawfords. Luckily the script agrees with the camera here and so there is a typical happy Hollywood ending for the film. As for the way of getting fame by using publicity, well that is still in use years later with people creating fame the same ways, only with newer technology.
There are a lot of faces in this one a movie buff will known, chief among them is Constance Bennett who was Marion Kirby in the Topper film series. This is a good film with a talented cast. There were not enough films made starring Judy Holliday but then she died tragically from breast cancer in 1963 at the young age of 43. In a way this makes her forever young in films, and her personality shines here, like it does in most of her sweet 16 career roles.
The plot has to do with Gladys wanting fame, and so she rents a billboard in downtown NYC and just puts her name on it in big letters. Then Lawford (Evan Adams III) wants the billboard Gladys has rented for 90 days and desperately makes a deal to get it by giving Gladys 6 other signs downtown. From there Glady's with the help of an agent spiral her to fame and fortune. Meanwhile Lemmon (Pete Sheppard), a documentary film maker who gets to know Gladys before the bill board but gives her the idea to do it, is also after her affections.
While Lawford is okay, Lemmon gets the better role here. His chemistry with Judy (Gladys) is better than Lawfords. Luckily the script agrees with the camera here and so there is a typical happy Hollywood ending for the film. As for the way of getting fame by using publicity, well that is still in use years later with people creating fame the same ways, only with newer technology.
There are a lot of faces in this one a movie buff will known, chief among them is Constance Bennett who was Marion Kirby in the Topper film series. This is a good film with a talented cast. There were not enough films made starring Judy Holliday but then she died tragically from breast cancer in 1963 at the young age of 43. In a way this makes her forever young in films, and her personality shines here, like it does in most of her sweet 16 career roles.