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Not quite a Lobster Newberg. Doris Day is an astute businesswoman who deals in the mass production of Lobsters. When her latest delivery goes awry due to incompetence of the E&P Railroad, she decided to take them on. All while affairs of the heart try to come into play. Not…
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It Happened to Jane
“It's bigger than all of us!”
62%
Movie
1h 37m
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It Happened to Jane (1959) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of It Happened to Jane (1959) — a movie tagged as Comedy and Romance with funny moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world". Our models also surface themes such as ai from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~97 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate It Happened to Jane 62% (71 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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from 71 TMDb votes
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Synopsis
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
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- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1959-05-24
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- TMDB rating
- 6.2
- TMDB ID
- 40957
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Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the ... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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The official runtime for It Happened to Jane is approximately 97 minutes.
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Cast

Doris Day
Jane Osgood

Jack Lemmon
George Denham

Ernie Kovacs
Harry Foster Malone

Steve Forrest
Larry Hall

Teddy Rooney
Billy Osgood

Russ Brown
Uncle Otis

Walter Greaza
Crawford Sloan

Parker Fennelly
Homer Bean

Mary Wickes
Matilda Runyon

Philip Coolidge
Wilbur Peterson

Max Showalter
Selwyn Harris
- J
John Cecil Holm
Aaron Caldwell

Gina Gillespie
Betty Osgood
- D
Dick Crockett
Clarence Runyon

Napoleon Whiting
Eugene - Waiter
- G
Garry Moore
Garry Moore

Dave Garroway
Dave Garroway
- B
Bill Cullen
Bill Cullen
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Not quite a Lobster Newberg. Doris Day is an astute businesswoman who deals in the mass production of Lobsters. When her latest delivery goes awry due to incompetence of the E&P Railroad, she decided to take them on. All while affairs of the heart try to come into play. Nothing really wrong with the film as such, it's all very harmless, a pleasant romantic comedy, with a likable cast (Jack Lemmon & Ernie Kovacs join Day)to while away the time with. It's just not a very interesting story, one where the love arc plays second fiddle to a bunch of over cooked sequences elsewhere. Whilst what could have been a strong feminist front never quite gets driven home. 6/10
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