It Happened to Jane

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film romantic comedy film

It Happened to Jane is a 1959 romantic comedy film starring Doris Day and Jack Lemmon, centered on a small-town widow’s battle against a powerful railroad company.

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It Happened to Jane canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film ⓘ
romantic comedy film ⓘ
alsoKnownAs That Jane from Maine ⓘ
Twinkle and Shine ⓘ
antagonist Ely C. Chase ⓘ
railroad company ⓘ
basedOn original screenplay ⓘ
cinematography Charles Lawton Jr. ⓘ
colorProcess black-and-white ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
director Richard Quine ⓘ
distributedBy Columbia Pictures ⓘ
distributorRegion theatrical release in the United States ⓘ
editor Charles Nelson ⓘ
featuresCharacter George Denham ⓘ
Harry Foster Malone ⓘ
filmingLocation Connecticut ⓘ
Maine (exterior locations) ⓘ
genre comedy ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ
hasTheme community solidarity ⓘ
romance ⓘ
small-town versus big business ⓘ
leadActorRole Doris Day as Jane Osgood ⓘ
Ernie Kovacs ⓘ
surface form: Ernie Kovacs as Harry Foster Malone

Jack Lemmon as George Denham ⓘ
mainCharacter Jane Osgood ⓘ
musicBy George Duning ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
producer Stanley Shapiro ⓘ
productionCompany Arwin Productions ⓘ
Columbia Pictures ⓘ
protagonistOccupation lobster business owner ⓘ
widowed mother ⓘ
releaseDate 1959-05-20 ⓘ
releaseYear 1959 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 98 ⓘ
screenwriter Max Wilk ⓘ
Norman Katkov ⓘ
setIn Maine ⓘ
starring Doris Day ⓘ
Ernie Kovacs ⓘ
Jack Lemmon ⓘ
Jack Weston ⓘ
Mary Wickes ⓘ
Steve Forrest ⓘ
storyBy Norman Katkov ⓘ
timePeriod 1950s American cinema ⓘ

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Lawrence Weingarten → notableWork → It Happened to Jane ⓘ
Richard Quine → notableWork → It Happened to Jane ⓘ
Richard Quine → directed → It Happened to Jane ⓘ
Jack Mullaney → notableWork → It Happened to Jane ⓘ