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Peter Warne ([[Clark Gable]]) is a hard-bitten reporter. He loses his job, but finds a ticket back in when he stumbles on to a runaway heiress, Ellie Andrews ([[Claudette Colbert]]). He meets her on a cross-country night bus, and threatens to blow her cover unless she gives him the exclusive story about her escape. They hate each other at first; when they realize that they'll have to share a room, they invent the "Wall of Jericho," a blanket between their two beds to keep them apart. But they eventually fall in love...
This [[Romantic Comedy]] from 1934 was directed by [[Frank Capra]]. It was the first film to win all five major
It's also the first [[Screwball Comedy]] — it started a whole genre of comedy films in which a straight man-style character is chased, harassed, and eventually romantically captured by a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] (or related trope).
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Peter ''is'' kind of a jerk to Ellie in some scenes. She still falls for him anyway.
* [[Blackmail]]: Peter wants the scoop on Ellie's flight to her husband; he threatens to call her father unless she gives it to him.
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* [[Fan Service]]: Clark Gable was seen without an undershirt in this film. There is [http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/gable1.asp an urban legend] that this hurt undershirt sales.
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: "Dyke's Auto Camp" might elicit a few snickers today.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: It takes place over several nights and days.
* [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: The heiress has run away because her father is trying to annul her marriage. Of course, this happens before she meets Clark Gable.
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* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Ellie and Peter spend quite a bit of time discussing hitchhiking techniques and what does or does not constitute a piggy-back ride.
** Gable has one of his own, where he complains that women "don't know how to dunk" (donuts into coffee). Nike used that scene for a shoe ad in the 80s.
* [[Show Some Leg]]: The [[Trope Maker]], and so old that many people don't even realize this is where it comes from.▼
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Gable's scene caused a media sensation.
▲* [[Show Some Leg]]: The [[Trope Maker]], and so old that many people don't even realize this is where it comes from.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Early in the film, Ellie falls asleep on Peter's shoulder, while riding a bus.
* [[This Is My Side]]: Having fun dancing around the [[Hays Code]] with that bedsheet. Has been homaged/used dozens of times by everything from ''The Sure Thing'' to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' to ''[[Brady Bunch Spin
** Eva, sure. But it's not surprising that they used it in ''The Sure Thing'' because that movie is a remake of ''It Happened One Night.''
* [[Worst News Judgment Ever]]: Ellie's love life makes the top story on the front page of every single New York newspaper. Evidently, not much else was going on in New York City in 1934.
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{{Academy Award Best Picture}}
{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs}}
[[Category:National Film Registry]]
[[Category:Screwball Comedy]]
[[Category:Romantic Comedy]]
[[Category:Films of the 1930s]]
▲[[Category:Academy Award]]
[[Category:It Happened One Night]]▼
[[Category:Jungle Jim]]
[[Category:Films Based on Short Stories]]
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