It Happened One Night (1934) |
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It Happened One Night Cast |
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Clark Gable
(as Peter Warne)
with Claudette Colbert
(as Ellie Andrews)
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Other InformationAwardsNational Film Registry National Film Preservation Board, USA [1993] Best Actess in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Director Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Picture Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Writin, Adaptation Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1935] (Won/Nominated: Won) Mussolini Cup Venice Film Festival [1934] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryRebellious socialite Ellie Andrews marries King Wesley but her wealthy father has it annulled. Tired of her father`s control, she runs away by diving off the family yacht in Miami and heading for New York. On the bus she meets street-smart reporter P... TaglineTogether for the first time! Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies ! Related MoviesChori Chori [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1956) Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1991) Niña bonita [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1955) The Runaround [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1946) The Sure Thing [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1985) You Can`t Run Away With It [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1956) Eve Knew Her Apples [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1945) Glückskinder [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1936) |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Alexander Andrews: [Alexander has figured out Ellie is in love with another man] Who is he?
Ellie: I don`t know very much about him, except that I love him.
Alexander Andrews: Well, if it`s as serious as all that, we`ll move Heaven and Earth to...
Ellie: No, it`s no use! He despises me.
Alexander Andrews: Oh, come now.
Ellie: Yes, he does! He despises everything about me. He says that I`m spoiled and selfish and pampered and thoroughly insincere.
Alexander Andrews: Oh, ho, ridiculous!
Ellie: He doesn`t think so much of you, either.
Alexander Andrews: Well, I...
Ellie: And he blames you for everything that`s wrong with me. He says you, you raised me stupidly.
Alexander Andrews: [sarcastically] Well now, that`s a fine man to fall in love with.
Ellie: Oh, he`s marvelous!
Joe Gordon: That`s the way things go: you think you got a great yarn, and something comes along and messes up the finish - and there you are.
Peter Warne: I want to see what love looks like when it`s triumphant. I haven`t had a good laugh in a week.
Peter Warne: You know, I had you pegged right from the jump. Just a spoiled brat of a rich father. The only way you get anything is to buy it, isn`t it? You`re in a jam and all you can think of is your money. It never fails, does it? Ever hear of the word humility? No, you wouldn`t. I guess it would never occur to you to just say, `Please mister, I`m in trouble, will you help me?` No, that would bring you down off your high horse for a minute. Well, let me tell you something, maybe it will take a load off your mind. You don`t have to worry about me. I`m not interested in your money or your problem. You, King Westley, your father. You`re all a lot of hooey to me!
Alexander Andrews: What`s the matter, child? Aren`t you happy?
[Ellie clutches her father, sobbing]
Alexander Andrews: I thought so. I knew there was something on your mind. There, there, there now. What`s the matter? You haven`t fallen in love with someone else, have you? Have you?
[Ellie continues crying]
Alexander Andrews: I haven`t seen you cry since you were a baby. This must be serious. Where`d you meet him?
Ellie: On the road.
Alexander Andrews: Now, don`t tell me you`ve fallen in love with a bus driver.
Alexander Andrews: Oh, er, do you mind if I ask you a question, frankly? Do you love my daughter?
Peter Warne: Any guy that`d fall in love with your daughter ought to have his head examined.
Alexander Andrews: Now that`s an evasion!
Peter Warne: She picked herself a perfect running mate - King Westley - the pill of the century! What she needs is a guy that`d take a sock at her once a day, whether it`s coming to her or not. If you had half the brains you`re supposed to have, you`d done it yourself, long ago.
Alexander Andrews: Do you love her?
Peter Warne: A normal human being couldn`t live under the same roof with her without going nutty! She`s my idea of nothing!
Alexander Andrews: I asked you a simple question! Do you love her?
Peter Warne: YES! But don`t hold that against me, I`m a little screwy myself!
Ellie: By the way, what`s your name?
Peter Warne: What`s that?
Ellie: Who are you?
Peter Warne: Who me?
[smiling]
Peter Warne: I`m the whippoorwill that cries in the night. I`m the soft morning breeze that caresses your lovely face.
Ellie: You`ve got a name, haven`t you?
Peter Warne: Yeah, I got a name. Peter Warne.
Ellie: Peter Warne. I don`t like it.
Peter Warne: Don`t let it bother you. You`re giving it back to me in the morning.
Ellie: Pleased to meet you, Mr. Warne.
Peter Warne: The pleasure is all mine, Mrs. Warne.
Ellie: I`ll stop a car, and I won`t use my thumb!
Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Ellie: Your ego is absolutely colossal.
Peter Warne: Yeah, yeah, not bad, how`s yours?
[Shuts and locks the door]
Ellie: You know, compared to you, my friend Shapeley`s an amateur. Just whatever gave you any idea I`d stand for this?
Peter Warne: Say now, wait a minute. Let`s get this straightened out right now. If you`re nursing any silly notion that I`m interested in you, forget it. You`re just a headline to me.
Ellie: A headline? You`re not a newspaper man are you?
Peter Warne: Chalk up one for your side.
Oscar Shapeley: You know, there`s nothing I like better than to meet a high-class mama that can snap `em back at ya. `Cause the colder they are, the hotter they get. That`s what I always say. Yes, sir, when a cold mama gets hot, boy, how she sizzles. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
[He nudges her with his elbow]
Oscar Shapeley: Now, you`re just my type. Believe me, sister, I could go for you in a big way. `Fun-on-the-side` Shapeley they call me, with accent on the fun, believe you me.
Peter Warne: Excuse me lady, but that upon which you sit is mine.
Ellie: I beg your pardon?
Peter Warne: I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
[after Ellen stops a car by showing her leg]
Peter Warne: Why didn`t you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.
Ellie: Well, ooo, I`ll remember that when we need forty cars.
Trivia Columbia Pictures was considered a Poverty Row studio at the time of the film`s release. Both MGM and Warner Brothers would loan out temperamental actors to Columbia as a `humbling experience.` Studio boss `Harry Cohn`, who was loathe to pay for his own roster of contract stars during the early 30`s, would invariably assign them to work on Frank Capra`s films. Although the studio had received Oscar nominations prior to this picture, it`s success virtually single-handedly lifted Columbia out of the ranks of poverty row. Is often credited as the very first screwball comedy. Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006. Was the first film to win both the Academy Award and National Board of Review Award for the Best Picture. When director Frank Capra asked Claudette Colbert to expose her leg for the hitchhiking scene, she at first refused. Later, after having seen the leg of her body double, she changed her mind insisting that "that is not my leg!" [June 2008] Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute`s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Romantic Comedy".
At the Miami bus station, friends of Peter Warne (Clark Gable) refer to him as "the King" - Gable`s nickname in real life. Claudette Colbert only wears four different outfits throughout the course of the film: a flimsy nightgown at the beginning, her traveling suit, Clark Gable`s pajamas, and her wedding dress. Constance Bennett and Myrna Loy, among others, turned the script down. Claudette Colbert only accepted because Capra promised he would double her salary and she would be done in four weeks. She disliked the film so much she didn`t even attend the Oscars; when she won for Best Actress she was found about to leave on a trip and was rushed to the ceremony, where she made her acceptance speech in a traveling suit. Director Frank Capra came up with the idea about "the walls of Jericho" because Claudette Colbert refused to undress in front of the camera Friz Freleng`s unpublished memoirs mention that this was one of his favorite films, and that it contains at least three things upon which the character "Bugs Bunny" was based: - The character Oscar Shapely`s (Roscoe Karns) personality - The manner in which Peter Warne (Clark Gable) was eating carrots and talking quickly at the same time - An imaginary character mentioned once to frighten Oscar Shapely named "Bugs Dooley." Other mentions of "Looney Tunes" characters from the film include Alexander Andrews (Walter Connolly) and King Westley (Jameson Thomas) being the inspirations for Yosemite Sam and Pepé LePew, respectively.
Myrna Loy turned down the role of Ellie Andrews because a recent film set on a bus had failed, and she didn`t think that this one would succeed. Robert Montgomery turned down the male lead, saying the script was the worst thing he had ever read. This was the first film to win the Oscar "grand slam" (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Screenplay). When Clark Gable showed up for work on the first day, he reportedly said grimly, "Let`s get this over with." While shooting the scene where he undresses, Clark Gable had trouble removing his undershirt while keeping his humorous flow going and took too long. As a result the undershirt was abandoned altogether. It then became cool to not wear an undershirt which resulted in a large drop in undershirt sales around the country. Legend has it that in response, some underwear manufacturers tried to sue Columbia. | ||
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