Title: It happened one night /
Authors: Capra, Frank, 1897-1991,; Riskin, Robert; Gable, Clark, 1901-1960,; Colbert, Claudette,; Connolly, Walter, 1887-1940,; Bond, Ward, 1903-1960,; Karns, Roscoe, 1893-1970,; Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958.; Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Publisher: Columbia Pictures Corporation,
Year: 1934
Subjects: Man-woman relationships Drama; Reporters and reporting Fiction; Millionaires United States; Weddings Humor; Tabloid newspapers Fiction; Children of the rich.; Detectives United States; Weddings Drama; Bus stops.; United States Social conditions
Abstract: A reporter on the make and a spoiled society girl meet during an overnight bus ride to New York. Frank Capra directs this story of two strong willed individuals as they verbally spar with one another on a journey through depression era America. Claudette Colbert plays a rich young woman fleeing her domineering father; accustomed to an existence surrounded by maids and chauffeurs she quickly loses all her purse and is forced to rely on her wits. Dodging detectives and would be bounty hunters, the pair head north to meet her fiance the playboy and aviator Wesley King. Along the way they become irrevocably attached to one another. It Happened One Night made Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert famous and became the inspiration for dozens of Hollywood spinoffs as well as two remakes and a Broadway musical.