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4 unusual facts about It Happened One Night


Pooja Bhatt

Her biggest solo hit and her big screen debut came with a musical hit, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin (1991), which was a remake of the Oscar-winning Hollywood classic It Happened One Night.

Sociology of film

In It Happened One Night and Bringing up Baby both females leads are of high social status and fall in love with males of lower social economic status then themselves.

Film critics believe that screwball comedies began with the movie It Happened One Night where an upper class soon to be bride and a lower class newspaper writer travel together and exchange satirical dialogs.

Wallis Clark

Five of these films won Best Picture: It Happened One Night (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), and Gone with the Wind (1939).


Cross-Country Romance

With the huge success of It Happened One Night, the 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, every studio in Hollywood attempted to cash in with a similar storyline.

Porky's Badtime Story

The working title for this cartoon was It Happened All Night (a pun on the Clark Gable It Happened One Night), but it was changed after the studio censors feared that the title would be too sexually suggestive.

Verne Mason

When motion picture director Frank Capra fell ill with a mysterious fever after completing It Happened One Night, Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn called in Mason to diagnose and treat Capra's illness.


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You Can't Run Away from It

It Happened One Night had also been remade as a musical comedy in 1945 as Eve Knew Her Apples.