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Won. Robert Riskin. It Happened One Night was the first film to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Writing). As of 2022, only two other films have matched this feat: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. [37]
A runaway heiress and a rogue reporter fall in love on a bus trip in this classic screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra. The film won five Oscars, including Best Picture, and features Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert as the lead stars.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Frank Capra
- 1934-02-22
A classic romantic comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, directed by Frank Capra. Read critics' reviews, watch the trailer, and find out where to stream or rent the film.
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- Claudette Colbert
- Frank Capra
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
Synopsis. 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. She buys a bus ticket to travel back to New York to her husband, where she meets an out of work ...
Nov 12, 2013 · Of course, this being a Frank Capra film, "It Happened One Night" is a Depression Era movie through and through. Apart from all the images of people traversing the country in search for jobs (bits as subliminal as they are persistent), and apart from constant hints at hunger and class divisions, there’s also the widespread fascination with mass media and news itself.
A classic romantic comedy from 1934, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert as a mismatched couple on a road trip. The film won five Oscars, including best picture, and features a new 4K restoration, interviews, and a documentary.
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Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from...
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