Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

Her first screen appearance was at the age of 10, when she appeared briefly in Frank Capra ’ s It Happened One Night.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).

Among his leading films was It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), which became the first film to win all five top Oscars, including Best Picture.

It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) became the first film to win all five top Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay ).

The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

* It Happened One Night ( 1934 )

Screwball comedies often depict social classes in conflict, as in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and My Man Godfrey ( 1936 ).

It first gained prominence in 1934 with It Happened One Night, which is often cited as being the first true screwball.

These traits can be seen in both It Happened One Night and My Man Godfrey.

The most famous example is It Happened One Night ; some critics believe that this portrayal of the upper class was brought about by the Great Depression, and the poor moviegoing public's desire to see the rich upper class taught a lesson in humanity.

* It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), d. Frank Capra

* February 22 – Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released.

* Episode 3: " It Happened One Night " ( Teleplay with Simon Muntner )

Also in 1934, she starred in Bolero with George Raft and it was for this film that she turned down the role of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night.

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite ( Claudette Colbert ) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ( Clark Gable ).

It Happened One Night was one of the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934.

In 1993, It Happened One Night was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Later on, she agreed to appear in It Happened One Night only if her salary was doubled to $ 50, 000, and also on the condition that the filming of her role be completed in four weeks so that she could take her well-planned vacation.

The film won five Oscars in the five most important categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, one of only three films in history to do so, along with It Happened One Night and The Silence of the Lambs, and firmly established Forman's reputation.

The film was remade as the 1977 television movie It Happened One Christmas.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), and also received Academy Award nominations for her dramatic roles in Private Worlds ( 1935 ) and Since You Went Away ( 1944 ).

Colbert shows co-star Clark Gable how to hitchhike in It Happened One Night ( 1934 )

* It Happened One Christmas ( 1977 ) ( TV )

His first film appearance was in the 1977 made-for-television movie It Happened One Christmas.

Adept at drama as well as comedy, Thomas appeared in the television movies It Happened One Christmas ( 1977 ) ( a remake of It's a Wonderful Life with Thomas in the rewritten James Stewart role ), Nobody's Child ( 1986 ), and The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck ( 1984 ) while she starred in films Jenny ( 1970 ) and Thieves ( 1977 ).

In 1977, he was hired by Marlo Thomas to pen a gender-reversal made-for-television version of It's a Wonderful Life entitled It Happened One Christmas, in which Thomas played the lead role portrayed by James Stewart in the original.

and It Happened to Jane In 1977 PBS broadcast a compilation series of Kovacs ' television work, and Lemmon served as the narrator of the series.

Disagreements between Lea and Chandler, centring around Lea's desire to produce Slade's material, had been brewing since the recording of Whatever Happened to Slade in 1977.

* Mary Whitehouse ( 1977 ) Whatever Happened to Sex ?, Wayland, ISBN 0-85340-460-7 ( pbk: Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-22906-3 )

* The Greatest Thing that Almost Happened ( 1977 )

Samuel Joel “ Zero ” Mostel ( February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977 ) was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version of The Producers.

This visual lasted about ten years, and was accompanied with three different themes: " And Then It Happened " by Charles Paul ( 1966 – 1973 ), " Love of Life Theme " by Eddie Layton ( 1973 ), and " The Life That You Live " by Carey Gold ( 1973 – 1977 ).

Despite his protests, Dobie was clearly fond of Zelda and would be married to her in the proposed 1977 series pilot, Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?

* It Happened at Lakewood Manor ( 1977 TV movie ) – Fire Chief

* Whatever Happened to the Jesus Lane Lot ?, Oliver R. Barclay: Leicester, Inter-Varsity Press, 1977, ISBN 0-85110-396-0.

* Harry B. Davis: " What Happened in Heidelberg: From Heidelberg Man to the Present ": Verlag Brausdruck GmbH, 1977, ISBN 0007C650K.

in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering in 1977 ), he also distinguished himself on the wrestling team and in stage productions, the most successful of which was A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, in which he played Miles Gloriosus.

* Elvis: What Happened by author Steve Dunleavy ( with input from Red West, Sonny West, Dave Hebler ) ( 1977 ) Bantam Books ( ISBN 0345272153 )

in 1953 he played in a remake of It Happened One Night, You Can't Run Away From It.

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.