Title: It Happened One Night
Runtime: 105 Min
Year: 1934
Genres: Comedy - Romance
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Jameson Thomas, Roscoe Karns, Alan Hale, Arthur Hoyt, Blanche Friderici, Charles C. Wilson
Directed By: Frank Capra
PLOT
Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story.
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Writers: Robert Riskin (screenplay), Samuel Hopkins Adams (short story)
Awards:
1935- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
-Best Actor in a Leading Role Clark Gable (In 1996, Steven Spielberg anonymously purchased Clark Gable's Oscar to protect it from further commercial exploitation, gave it back to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, commenting that he could think of "no better sanctuary for Gable's only Oscar than the Motion Picture Academy".) (WON)
-Best Actress in a Leading Role Claudette Colbert (Claudette Colbert was so convinced that she would lose the Oscar to write-in nominee Bette Davis that she didn't attended the ceremony orignally. She was summoned from a train station to pick up her Academy Award.)(WON)
-Best Director Frank Capra (WON)
-Best Picture (Columbia). (WON)
-Best Writing, Adaptation Robert Riskin (WON)
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