It Happened One Night Articles

Mostly a Paramount star, Claudette Colbert hasn’t been a frequent presence on Turner Classic Movies — that is, apart from reruns of her relatively few movies at MGM, Warner Bros., and RKO. Unfortunately, TCM’s "Summer Under the Stars" day dedicated to Colbert — Friday, August 12 — won’t rectify that glaring cinematic omission. [Claudette Colbert Movie Schedule.] Despite the fact that dozens of Claudette Colbert [...]

Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable in Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Review Part I It Happened One Night’s well-known "Walls of Jericho" reference comes from a scene where Peter places a blanket across a rope to divide the room in which he and Ellie are staying. Frank Capra and Robert Riskin use it as a way to heighten the sexual provocations [...]

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) Direction: Frank Capra Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns Screenplay: Robert Riskin; from Samuel Hopkins Adams’ short story "Night Bus" Oscar Movies Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: It is a very rare thing when a light-hearted comedy, something that is quintessentially the stuff of a "good movie," breaches into [...]

Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s 1934 comedy It Happened One Night (top); Ray Milland, Jane Wyman in Billy Wilder’s 1945 drama The Lost Weekend (bottom). The first and last best picture Oscar winners by way of the preferential voting system. The winner of the 2010 best picture Oscar will be determined through the preferential voting system, which in the last six or so [...]