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Summary:
Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling today. Claudette Colbert plays Ellie Andrews, a spoiled heiress who has married fortune-hunting aviator King Westley (Jameson Thomas), despite her father (Walter Connolly)'s objections. To keep Ellie from marrying this lothario, her father has been holdin... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Clark Gable - (Peter Warne)
Claudette Colbert - (Ellie Andrews)
Walter Connolly - (Alexander Andrews)
Roscoe Karns - (Oscar Shapeley)
Jameson Thomas - (King Westley)
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Review:
Scripted by Capra's frequent collaborator Robert Riskin, Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) became the prototypical screwball comedy and elevated Columbia Pictures from Poverty Row status to respectable "major minor" studio. Starring Clark Gable, on loan from MGM as punishment, and Claudette Colbert, on loan from Para... Continue >>

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