It Happened to Jane
6.2ReleasedComedyRomance

It Happened to Jane

"It's bigger than all of us!"

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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Cast

  • Doris Day
    Doris Day
    Jane Osgood
  • Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon
    George Denham
  • Ernie Kovacs
    Ernie Kovacs
    Harry Foster Malone
  • Steve Forrest
    Steve Forrest
    Larry Hall
  • Teddy Rooney
    Teddy Rooney
    Billy Osgood
  • Russ Brown
    Russ Brown
    Uncle Otis
  • Walter Greaza
    Walter Greaza
    Crawford Sloan
  • Parker Fennelly
    Parker Fennelly
    Homer Bean
  • Mary Wickes
    Mary Wickes
    Matilda Runyon
  • Philip Coolidge
    Philip Coolidge
    Wilbur Peterson
  • Max Showalter
    Max Showalter
    Selwyn Harris
  • John Cecil Holm
    Aaron Caldwell
  • Gina Gillespie
    Gina Gillespie
    Betty Osgood
  • Dick Crockett
    Clarence Runyon
  • Napoleon Whiting
    Napoleon Whiting
    Eugene - Waiter
  • Garry Moore
    Garry Moore
  • Dave Garroway
    Dave Garroway
    Dave Garroway
  • Bill Cullen
    Bill Cullen
  • Jayne Meadows
    Jayne Meadows
    Jayne Meadows
  • Henry Morgan
    Henry Morgan
    Henry Morgan
  • Robert Paige
    Robert Paige
    Robert Paige
  • Betsy Palmer
    Betsy Palmer
    Betsy Palmer
  • Steve McCormick
    TV Newsman
  • Jack Carter
    Jack Carter
    Stenographer (uncredited)
  • Gene Rayburn
    Gene Rayburn
    Gene Rayburn (uncredited)

Crew

  • Richard Quine
    Richard Quine
    Director
  • Norman Katkov
    Screenplay
  • Norman Katkov
    Story
  • Max Wilk
    Story
  • Martin Melcher
    Producer
  • Richard Quine
    Richard Quine
    Producer
  • George Duning
    George Duning
    Music
  • Charles Nelson
    Editor
  • Charles Lawton Jr.
    Charles Lawton Jr.
    Director of Photography

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