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 ).

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.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

* Superman is real, Clark Kent the mask: Pre-Crisis interpretations of Superman assumed that Clark Kent was the " mask " and Kal-El the person ( in the classic story Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow ?, when Superman's dual life is revealed, he completely abandons his Clark Kent persona ).

Another writer in this tradition was Henry Farrell whose best-known work was the Hollywood horror novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Another way Steed contacted her was in the beginning of episode 13, " A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Station " when she enters her flat and sees a Meccano Percy the Small Engine going around a circular track with a note on one of the train cars that says " Mrs. Peel " in bold letters, she then walks over to Steed who says " you're needed ".

Keaton's last film appearance was in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1966 ) which was filmed in Spain in late 1965.

Colbert was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for three films, It Happened One Night ( 1935 ), Private Worlds ( 1936 ), and Since You Went Away ( 1945 ), winning for It Happened One Night.

On paper, it was his biggest hit, easily surpassing It Happened One Night.

Davis anticipated that her reception would encourage Warner Bros. to cast her in more important roles, and was disappointed when Jack Warner refused to lend her to Columbia Studios to appear in It Happened One Night, and instead cast her in the melodrama Housewife.

Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ) was Robert Aldrich's follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ?, in which he planned to reunite Davis and Crawford, but when Crawford withdrew allegedly due to illness soon after filming began, she was replaced by Olivia de Havilland.

He was boosted further by success on That Was The Week That Was ( TW3 ) in 1963 and on stage with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1963 – 1965 ), which led into regular television work.

The musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, set in ancient Rome, was also said to be an influence.

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.

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

They are managed by Mike LaFontaine ( Fred Willard ), whose fifteen minutes of fame came by way of a failed 1970s TV sitcom, Wha ' Happened ?, which lasted less than one season.

Mabel enters dressed as one of Sennett's famous bathing beauties and dances a youthful Charleston to " That's How Young I Feel " before reprising " Look What Happened to Mabel " backed by Mack, the cameraman, a stage manager and a few extras.

In 1962 Mostel began work on the role of Pseudolus in the Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which was to be one of his best remembered roles.

Because one can discover that " Something has Happened!

The album enjoyed similar success to the band's debut, entering the charts at number one in Ireland and number nine in the U. K. – largely on the back of the single " Whatever Happened To Corey Haim?

The 2000 book True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna by David Roberts gives one view of the controversy.

Following the Seraphim Falls, Michael starred with one of his acting heroes, Robert De Niro, in the film about making films, What Just Happened ( 2008 ).