It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, 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).
Plot
Wall Street heiress Ellie Andrews has eloped with glamorous pilot King Westley. Her father Alexander senses that Westley married Ellie for her money. Mr. Andrews sequesters Ellie on his Florida yacht while his lawyers arrange an annulment. However, Ellie breaks out and swims to shore, where she boards a Greyhound bus bound for New York City to reunite with Westley. Mr. Andrews makes headlines by putting out a $10,000 reward for her safe return.
Awards
Cast
- Alan Hale
- Arthur Hoyt
- Bess Flowers
- Billy West
- Blanche Friderici
- Charles C. Wilson
- Claire McDowell
- Clark Gable
- Claudette Colbert
- Dolores Fuller
- Eddy Chandler
- Emma Tansey
- Ernie Adams
- Fred Walton
- George Breakston
- Harry C. Bradley
- Harry Holman
- Harry Todd
- Irving Bacon
- Jack Curtis
- James Burke
- Jameson Thomas
- Joseph Crehan
- Roscoe Karns
- Wallis Clark
- Walter Connolly
- Ward Bond
- William Bailey
- William Irving
- William McCall
- William Wagner