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July 14, 2016  |  Film
Judy Holliday in It Should Happen to You
It Should Happen to You. 1954. USA. Directed by George Cukor

It Should Happen to You. 1954. USA. Directed by George Cukor

In the mid-20th century, burgeoning television programming was often live, newscasters smoked on set, hosts had strange sidekicks (a chimpanzee named J. Fred Muggs, for example), and dramatic programs featured scripts by Rod Serling, Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayevsky, and Gore Vidal, to name just a few.