Trivia for
It Should Happen to You (1954)

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• This story was conceived when Garson Kanin, trying to cheer up his wife Ruth Gordon, was driving by Columbus Circle. He told her he was going to put her name on "that billboard there" in the biggest letters. He didn't. He wrote a screenplay instead. Gordon suggested that the lead should be Judy Holliday. Kanin had originally considered a male lead, Danny Kaye. When he finished the screenplay, the lead had been written for Holliday.
  
  
• Film debut of 'Jack Lemmon'.
  
  
• The site of the "Gladys Glover" billboard in Columbus Circle is now occupied by the new AOL-Time Warner Building.
  
  

• The shooting title was ''A Name for Herself.''
  
  
• The production had a 10-day location shoot in New York City in early July, 1953.
  
  

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