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It is seen as one of the greatest films ever made. It Happened One Night is the first of only three films (along with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs) to win all five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
It Happened One Night: Directed by Frank Capra. With Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns. A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
In Frank Capra's acclaimed romantic comedy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) impetuously marries the scheming King Westley, leading her tycoon father (Walter Connolly) to spirit ...
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YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. Subscribed. 731. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews...
It Happened One Night begins with a rich heiress named Ellie Andrews sequestered by her father on his yacht, disapproving of her marriage to a famous aviator named King Westley. After an argument, she escapes the yacht and swims away.
1h 45m1934. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour. Cast & Crew. Read More. Frank Capra. Director. Clark Gable. Peter [Warne] Claudette Colbert. Ellie [Andrews] Walter Connolly.
Details. When a spoiled heiress marries a gigolo, her unhappy father kidnaps her to force an annulment so she turns to a recently-fired cynical newspaperman who agrees to get her to New York in exchange for her story in the hope to get his job back.
