It Happened to Jane is a 1959 romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs directed by Richard Quine and written by Norman Katkov and Max Wilk.
Day plays Jane Osgood, a young widow who clashes with a railroad magnate after her shipment of lobsters is spoiled. Lemmon plays her attorney and love interest.
In May 1959, in the town of Cape Anne, Maine, a foulup by the Eastern & Portland Railroad results in the death of 300 lo...
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It Happened to Jane is a 1959 romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs directed by Richard Quine and written by Norman Katkov and Max Wilk.
Day plays Jane Osgood, a young widow who clashes with a railroad magnate after her shipment of lobsters is spoiled. Lemmon plays her attorney and love interest.
In May 1959, in the town of Cape Anne, Maine, a foulup by the Eastern & Portland Railroad results in the death of 300 lobsters shipped by Jane Osgood (Doris Day). She gets her lawyer and boyfriend, George Denham (Jack Lemmon), to go after the E&P; to pay damages after her customer, the Marshall Town Country Club, refuses all future orders.
In the E&P; office in New York City, Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs) learns about the Osgood lawsuit. Due to the budget cuts Malone instated, there was no station agent at Marshall Town to receive the lobsters. Malone then sends employees Crawford Sloan (Walter Greaza) and Wilbur Peterson (Philip Coolidge) to Cape Anne to...
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