It Happened to Jane is a 1959 American romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs.

Jane, a widow with two children, asks her lifelong friend and lawyer George Denham to seek compensation from the railroad after her customer cancels all future orders.

Malone sends two of his employees Crawford Sloan and Selwyn Harris to Cape Anne to deal with the situation.

They offer Jane $700 in compensation, but she refuses because the amount does not cover the cost of lost future orders and the damage to her own business's reputation.

Jane travels to New York City to appear on network television, including the game show I've Got a Secret.

Fearful of bad publicity, Mr. Malone finally relents, cancels the rent and gives Jane the train.

Jane receives telegrams of support from the public, and her former customer now promises to continue doing business with her.

Realizing that using Old 97 is the only way to deliver lobsters, Jane and George persuade the townspeople to fill the train's tender with coal from their homes.

After the wedding, as George is being inaugurated as a selectman, a badly needed fire engine approaches the town, as it's a present from Mr. Harry Malone.

"[5] In January 1959, before the film's release, a paperback novelization of the screenplay was written by Marvin H. Albert and published by Gold Medal Books under the current working title of That Jane From Maine.