It Happened to Jane
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| Directed by | Richard Quine |
| Produced by |
Martin Melcher Richard Quine |
| Written by |
Norman Katkov Max Wilk |
| Starring |
Doris Day Jack Lemmon Ernie Kovacs |
| Music by | George Duning |
| Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
| Edited by | Charles Nelson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.7 million (est. US/ Canada rentals) |
It Happened to Jane is a 1959 Eastmancolor romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, and Ernie Kovacs directed by Richard Quine and written by Norman Katkov and Max Wilk. The film was co-produced by Quine and Day's husband at the time, Martin Melcher.
The film was re-released in 1961, with the title Twinkle and Shine.
In May 1959, in the town of Cape Anne, Maine, a foul-up by the Eastern & Portland Railroad (E&P) results in the death of 300 lobsters shipped by Jane Osgood (Doris Day), an attractive, widowed businesswoman with two children. She gets her lawyer and friend, George Denham (Jack Lemmon), to go after the E&P to pay damages after her customer, the Marshalltown Country Club, refuses all future orders.
In the E&P office in New York City, railroad executive Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs) learns about the Osgood lawsuit. Due to the budget cuts Malone had instated, there had been no station agent at Marshalltown to receive Jane's lobsters. Malone sends employees Crawford Sloan (Walter Greaza) and Wilbur Peterson (Philip Coolidge) to Cape Anne to deal with the situation. The two attorneys offer Jane $700 in compensation, but Jane turns it down because the loss to her business reputation is more than that.
Jane wins in court, but E&P appeals the case to the state Supreme Court in Augusta, Maine. George files a writ of execution to force payment and take possession of the train, Old 97, in lieu of payment.
Jane is interviewed by local newspaper reporter Matilda Runyon, who then calls the Daily Mirror in New York. Top reporter Larry Hall (Steve Forrest) is sent to Cape Anne for the story. Television stations also want to interview Jane. Malone retaliates by charging Jane rent for the siding on which the train is sitting. In a charming scene, Jane and George are shown singing an original song, "Be Prepared", to a pack of local cub scouts at a forested picnic.
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