It Happened One Christmas airwaves on an annual basis, the remake slipped into obscurity. The reviews were mixed. After its initial airing a "New York Times" follow-up article revealed that Frank Capra, the director of the 1946 film "It's A Wonderful Life", had denounced the remake as "plagiaristic." The ratings, however, were good enough that it was rebroadcast on ABC twice, in 1978 and 1979. But by that time the original "It's A Wonderful Life" had begun its resurgence on television and eventually eclipsed the remake. "It Happened One Christmas" is rarely shown today, and has not, as of 2017, been issued on DVD.
It Happened One Night but she was under contract with Warner Brothers and Jack L. Warner refused to lend her. Carole Lombard was unable to accept, because Columbia’s proposed filming schedule would conflict with her work on "Bolero" at Paramount. Loretta Young also turned it down. Harry Cohn suggested Colbert, and she initially turned the role down. Colbert's first film, "For the Love of Mike" (1927), had been directed by Capra, and it was such a disaster that she vowed to never make another with him. Later on, she agreed to appear in "It Happened One Night" only if her salary was doubled to