It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

1934 | 1h 45m | Comedy, Romance | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

This 1934 screwball comedy was the first movie to win all five major Oscars -- Best Picture, Actress, Actor, Director and Screenplay. Claudette Colbert is a madcap heiress on the run, and Clark Gable is a brash reporter looking for a scoop.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Frank Capra

CAST

Clark Gable

Claudette Colbert

Walter Connolly

Roscoe Karns

Jameson Thomas

PRODUCERS

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WRITERS

Robert Riskin

Host Intros

02:11
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- It Happened One Night (1934)
Intro Aired: May 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces It Happened One Night, 1934.
01:49
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- It Happened One Night (1934)
Intro Aired: Dec 2016
Ben Mankiewicz introduces It Happened One Night, 1934.
02:01
Robert Osborne Intro -- It Happened One Night (1934)
Intro Aired: Feb 2016
Robert Osborne Introduces It Happened One Night, 1934.

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Clark Gable -- (Movie Promo) Star Of The Month, May 2017
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TCM promo for Star Of The Month for May, 2017, Clark Gable, beginning Tuesday, May 2nd at 8pm ET with It Happened One Night, 1934.
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It Happened One Night (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Make Way For The King
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Clark Gable is introduced as newsman Pete, in a southern bus depot showing off for his buddies, pretending hes telling off his boss (Charles C. Wilson), tangling with a driver (Ward Bond), and meeting runaway heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert), in Frank Capras It Happened One Night, 1934.
It Happened One Night (1934) -- (Movie Clip) You Mind If I Try?
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Newsman Pete (Clark Gable), now helping heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) escape her father's detectives, gets schooled in hitch-hiking, in another famous scene from Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, 1934.
It Happened One Night (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Long Line Of Stubborn Idiots
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Madcap heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) establishing bona-fides with some bite, for her father Alexander (Walter Connolly), opening Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, 1934, also starring Clark Gable.
It Happened One Night (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Take My Advice
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Just-fired newsman Pete (Clark Gable), standing by to inform runaway heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) that she's missed her bus, he knows who she is, and he doesn't care, in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, 1934.
It Happened One Night (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Every Man For Himself
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Brash newspaperman Pete (Clark Gable) instructs runaway heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) on the rules of men's undressing, in a famous scene from Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, 1934.
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It Happened One Night - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
A newspaperman (Clark Gable) tracks a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) on a madcap cross-country tour in It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra.

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