Frank Capra’s movie ‘It Happened One Night’ is a romantic comedy. The film dominated and swept all major categories of the Academy Awards – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay, in the year 1934.
Adapted by Robert Riskin from a short story called ‘Night Bus’, the movie revolves around the unlikely romance between a spoiled socialite, Claudette Colbert travelling on a bus after running out on her wedding, and a reporter, Clark Gable on the hunt for a good story.
The film illustrated that even a wealthy heiress could find happiness and adventure on the road among common folk. The film, composed mostly of a road trip by the couple, contains some of the most classic scenes ever made.
It was the first time in Academy history that both male and female leads, Gable and Colbert, from the same film, won the top award for acting.
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