It Happened One Night is injured during World War II and believes himself to be Peter Warne. As he sneaks through German-occupied France, several plot points run parallel to that of "It Happened One Night" and he believes his French contact to be Ellen Andrews. Notes Bibliography Streaming audio It Happened One Night It Happened One Night is a 1934 pre-Code American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish
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