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It Happened One Night has a few parallels with, and may have even inspired certain characteristics of, the cartoon character Bugs Bunny, who made his first appearance six years later, and who Freleng helped develop. In the film, a minor character, Oscar Shapely, continually calls the Gable character "Doc," an imaginary character named "Bugs ...
Adams was a prolific writer, who wrote fiction as well. “Night Bus” (1933), one of his many magazine stories, became the basis for the 1934 film ‘’It Happened One Night‘’. Adams’ first solo novel was in 1908, ‘’Flying Death’’, which added to his mystery collection. [1]
Claudette Colbert (1903–1996) was an American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in It Happened One Night (1934). Born Émilie (aka Lily) Claudette Chauchoin, she had early passions for a career in fashion design. [1]
It Happened One Night (1934) became the first film to win all five top Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay). Written by Robert Riskin , it is one of the first screwball comedies , and with its release in the Great Depression , critics considered it an escapist story and a celebration of the ...
February 22 – Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released. It becomes a smash hit and the first of Capra's great screen classics. It becomes the first film to win all 5 of the major Academy Awards – Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Gable and Colbert ...
Publicity photo of director Frank Capra. Frank Capra (May 5, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Eve Knew Her Apples is a 1945 musical comedy remake of the 1934 film It Happened One Night directed by Will Jason and starring Ann Miller, William Wright and Robert Williams. The movie was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures , owner of the rights to the original 1934 version, and would be remade as a musical comedy again in 1956 as ...
His trademark role was that of the exasperated business tycoon or newspaperman, often as the father of the female lead character, as in It Happened One Night (1934) with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; Broadway Bill (1934), supporting Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy; and Libeled Lady (1936) with William Powell and Loy again.