Die unglaubliche Geschichte der Gladys Glover (1954)

Die unglaubliche Geschichte der Gladys Glover: Directed by George Cukor. With Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Michael O’Shea. When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.

“Thereu0026#39;s always plenty going on beneath the surface of a Garson Kanin script. And here, as in the eternally underrated Tom, Dick and Harry and The Rat Race, his real subject is the American Dream. Judy Holliday, who originated the lead in Kaninu0026#39;s Born Yesterday on stage and won an Oscar for it on screen, plays Gladys Glover, a newly-unemployed model whose plan to make a name for herself involves just that: plastering her name across a Columbus Circle billboard. It brings her fame, but as beau Jack Lemmon suggests in one telling, prescient exchange, she hasnu0026#39;t done anything to warrant it. And anyway, isnu0026#39;t it OK to be part of the crowd? The dialogue is absolutely scintillating, the satire spot-on and the performances from Holliday and Lemmon (in his big screen debut) spectacular.”