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Release Date: 1934

Cast: Irving Bacon, William Bailey, Claudette Colbert, Alan Hale, Sr., Charles C. Wilson, Walter Connolly, Jameson Thomas, Ward Bond, Roscoe Karns, Arthur Hoyt, Blanche Friderici, Clark Gable ...MORE

Cast: Irving Bacon, William Bailey, Claudette Colbert, Alan Hale, Sr., Charles C. Wilson, Walter Connolly, Jameson Thomas, Ward Bond, Roscoe Karns, Arthur Hoyt, Blanche Friderici, Clark Gable, Jessie Arnold, Ernie Adams ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Road movie, Screwball comedy, Black-and-white, Comedy, Pre-Code, Romance Film

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot was based on the August 1933 short story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. It Happened One Night was one of the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934. In spite of its title the movie takes place over several... MORE

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot was based on the August 1933 short story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. It Happened One Night was one of the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934. In spite of its title the movie takes place over several nights. The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and later by The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In 1993, It Happened One Night was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Spoilt heiress Ellen "Ellie" Andrews (Claudette Colbert) marries fortune-hunter "King" Westley (Jameson Thomas) against the wishes of her extremely wealthy father LESS