It Happened One Night 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 reporter (Clark Gable). The plot is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. Classified as a "pre-Code" production, the film is among the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began rigidly enforcing the
It Happened One Night on the March 20, 1939 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, with Colbert and Gable reprising their roles. The screenplay was also adapted as a radio play for the January 28, 1940, broadcast of "The Campbell Playhouse", starring Orson Welles (Mr. Andrews), William Powell (Peter Grant) and Miriam Hopkins (Ellie Andrews). "It Happened One Night" has been adapted into numerous Indian films. These include three Hindi adaptations: "Chori Chori" (1956), "Nau Do Gyarah" (1957) and "Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin" (1991), one Bengali adaptation starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen, "Chaoa Paoa" (1959), one Tamil adaptation "Chandhrodhayam" (1966), and one Kannada