Not a classic by any stretch, but enjoyable from several angles. Garson Kanin’s script and George Cukor’s direction whip a up a tasty froth; Judy Holliday is effective in her usual role of dumb blonde much smarter than she looks; and Jack Lemmon debuts in much the vein he will mine in The Apartment and countless other films. She’s a girdle model just canned for an extra 3/4” on her hips, who meets him in Central Park where he is making a documentary film. Encouraged by his peptalk, she walks out onto Columbus Circle, sees a huge billboard and decides that the way to make a name for herself is to put it up there in letters ten feet high. Soon Gladys Glover anticipates Madonna and so many others by becoming famous for being famous, swept up in a publicity machine in its quaint infancy fifty years ago. Interesting period footage of NYC is a plus. (1953, dvd, n.) *6+*
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