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.

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.

* It Happened One Christmas the 1977 made-for-television remake

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 )

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

Colbert was reluctant to appear as the " runaway heiress ", Ellie Andrews, in the Frank Capra romantic comedy, It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), opposite Clark Gable and released by Columbia Pictures.

In particular, It Happened One Night, which nearly swept the 1934 Oscars, put Columbia on the map.

Hopkins was one of the first actresses approached to play the role of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), however she famously rejected the part.

MGM persuaded her to try films and her movie debut was in This Side of Heaven ( February 1934 ), the same year she appeared in Dodsworth on Broadway and the film It Happened One Day ( July 1934 ).

Along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, also released in 1934, Twentieth Century is considered to be a prototype for the screwball comedy.

* In the 1934 Frank Capra film It Happened One Night, before Clark Gable's character Peter Warne reveals his name to Ellie Andrews ( Claudette Colbert ), he famously says to her: " I am the whip-poor-will that cries in the night ".

The wide-shouldered 6 ' 2 " Bond appears in more of the films on both the original and the tenth anniversary edition of the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies lists than any other actor, albeit always as a supporting player: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and The Searchers ( 1956 ).

Arrowsmith ( 1931 / 32 ), Lady for a Day ( 1933 ), It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), You Can't Take It with You ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ), The Quiet Man ( 1952 ) and Mister Roberts ( 1955 ).

* It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) uncredited

His other films include the 1928 Skyscraper, as well as Fog Over Frisco, Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen, The Little Minister, and It Happened One Night, all released in 1934 ; the 1937 film Stella Dallas ; High, Wide, and Handsome ; The Fighting 69th ; They Drive By Night ; Manpower ; and as the cantankerous Sgt.

Then, she became a full fledged member of the Telemundo family where she hosted the afternoon lifestyles program La Buena Vida (" The Good Life "), The show was merged with another newsmagazine titled Ocurrió así (" It Happened This Way ") and Esta noche con Cecilia Bolocco (" Tonight With Cecilia Bolocco ") followed for which she won two Emmy awards.

Gerrold then expanded the story to a full television story outline entitled " A Fuzzy Thing Happened To Me …", and it eventually became " The Trouble With Tribbles ".

" Night Bus ", one of Adams's many magazine stories, became the basis for the film It Happened One Night.

Tikhonov became better known with the release of " the rural family drama Delo bylo v Penkove ( It Happened in Penkovo, 1958 ), was followed by several wartime dramas: Maiskie Zvyozdy ( May Stars, 1959 ), set in Prague, and Na Semi Vetrakh ( On the Seven Winds, 1962 ), on the Western front.

Kenyon, a founder of the doctrine that later became known as Word of Faith, was the first to explicitly articulate the doctrine in a number of his works, including What Happened From The Cross To the Throne and Identification: A Romance In Redemption.

A stint in a Philadelphia production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( as Philia ) was followed by the NBC music series Hullabaloo, where she was a featured dancer and met Michael Bennett, who became a guiding force in her life and career.

With Michael Medved ( who later became a film critic ), Wallechinsky was the co-author of What Really Happened to the Class of ' 65, a series of interviews with their fellow high school graduates from Palisades High School in California ten years afterward.