Posted by Larry Gleeson
Directed by AFI Life Achievement Award recipient Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert – each of whom had been enshrined amongst AFI’s best display legends – IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) is an iconic screwball comedy that’s appeared on no fewer than 4 of AFI’s lists of the best American movies of all time – together with amongst the highest 10 funniest movies ever to grace the silver display.
Spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father Alexander’s yacht when he kidnaps her after she elopes with and marries King Westley, a playboy aviator whom Andrews thinks is a fortune hunter. She boards a bus headed for New York and meets Peter Warne (Gable), a reporter who has simply been fired. Regardless of their dislike for one another, the 2 handle to meet one another’s wants and discover redemption of their work and of their relationships. Streaming on Prime Video and YouTube.
The working title for this movie was Night time Bus, and it was to have starred Robert Montgomery, who was Frank Capra’s authentic selection for the a part of Peter Warne. Montgomery was changed by Clark Gable, who was borrowed from M-G-M, whereas Claudette Colbert was borrowed from Paramount. In Capra’s autobiography, he states that he variously sought Myrna Loy, Margaret Sullavan, Miriam Hopkins, and Constance Bennett for the function of Ellie Andrews earlier than deciding on Colbert.
Within the 5 main classes, Finest Image, Finest Route, Finest Screenplay, Finest Actor, and Finest Actress (Colbert was the primary French-born actress to obtain the dignity). It was voted one of many ten greatest photos of 1934 by the FD Ballot of Critics and the Nationwide Board of Evaluate, and on 20 Mar 1939, Gable and Colbert carried out a radio model of it for the Lux Radio Theater.
Though many movies are known as “remakes” of It Occurred One Night time in fashionable sources, solely 1956 musical You Can’t Run Away from It, produced at Columbia, directed by Dick Powell and starring Jack Lemmon and June Allyson, was based mostly on the identical quick story and used the identical screenplay (with variations) because the Capra movie. It Occurred One Night time was ranked forty sixth on AFI’s 2007 100 Years…100 Motion pictures–tenth Anniversary Version record of the best American movies, transferring down from the thirty fifth place it held on AFI’s 1997 record.
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HollywoodGlee celebrating the beginning of the 2019 AFI FEST offered by Audi. (Photograph credit score: Larry Gleeson)
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