It Happened One Night
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Robert Riskin
Producer: Frank Capra, Harry Cohn
It Happened One Night is a 1934 American screwball comedy film produced and directed by Frank Capra. Claudette Colbert stars as a pampered socialite who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter, played by Clark Gable. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Director.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
- Won the National Board of Review Award for Best Film.
- Neither Gable nor Colbert was the first choice to play the lead roles.
- Miriam Hopkins rejected the part of Ellie.
- Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy were then offered the roles, but both turned down the script.
Previous Showings
18 Runs • 10 Festivals
25,866 tickets sold
All runs on record (18):
- February 23 - 26, 1990 · 3,387 ticketsw/ Platinum Blonde
- April 2, 1990 · 127 ticketsw/ Lady for a Day
- January 19 - 20, 1991 · 1,086 ticketsw/ Lady for a Day
- April 10 - 15, 1993 · 2,401 ticketsw/ Mutiny on the Bounty
- May 21 - 24, 1994 · 1,497 ticketsw/ The Palm Beach Story
- July 13 - 16, 1996 · 1,813 ticketsw/ The Gay Divorcee
- April 25 - 27, 1997 · 2,342 ticketsw/ Lady for a Day
- November 28 - December 1, 1998 · 1,453 ticketsRomantic Comedy Seriesw/ His Girl Friday
- August 19 - 20, 1999 · 1,023 ticketssummer99w/ My Man Godfrey
- July 7 - 14, 2000 · 1,997 ticketsSummer 2000w/ His Girl Friday
- September 28 - 29, 2002 · 958 ticketsFall Folliesw/ Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- July 21, 2004 · 503 ticketsSummer 2004w/ That Certain Thing
- November 10 - 13, 2007 · 2,103 ticketsFall 2007 The Films of Frank Capra, plus other favoritesw/ Platinum Blonde
- October 25 - 26, 2009 · 465 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ Midnight
- November 16 - 18, 2011 · 729 ticketsFall 2011w/ Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
- January 24 - 26, 2014 · 1,592 ticketsFrank Capra Festivalw/ That Certain Thing
- July 6 - 8, 2018 · 1,083 ticketsw/ The Palm Beach Story
- January 25 - 26, 2025 · 1,307 ticketsThe Films of Frank Capraw/ You Can't Take It with You