It Happened to Jane (1959 Richard Quine)

Sandwiched between two absolute classics, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, Lemmon fulfilled his commitments to Columbia appearing (in slightly odd casting) as a scout master / small town lawyer opposite lobster farmer / widow Doris Day. (Though according to the Michael Freedland biog 'Some Like It Cool' the film was actually made before the first Wilder.) Quine was not involved in the screenplay, which was from the well-known team of Norman Katkov and Max Wilk. I'm being sarcastic, but I've never had a screenplay put into production, so fuck me. Some shenanigans with a train follow, which I don't think was used as effectively as possible - Q for example came up with the simply delightful idea that they should have converted the train into a lobster restaurant. Sadly she was neither alive nor working for Columbia in 1959 and thus that never happened. Still, a passable entertainment, photographed by Charles Lawton.

It took me almost the whole film to realise that the bad guy was Ernie Kovacs, the chameleon like character actor who also appeared in Quine's Bell Book and Candle and Strangers When We Meet. (And, having double-checked, Operation Mad Ball.) He was married to Edie Adams from The Apartment and died in a car crash aged only 42. 

Quine, Kovacs and Lemmon shared a house together on the shoot and got on famously. The director would stop every day at three so they could go fishing, though Lemmon preferred to play the piano. In fact he released an album of his singing and playing 'A Twist of Lemmon' around this time - claims he knew the four people who had bought it.