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 Christmas It Happened One Christmas It Happened One Christmas is a 1977 American made-for-television Christmas fantasy-comedy film starring Marlo Thomas, Wayne Rogers, Orson Welles and Cloris Leachman. It originally premiered as "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" on December 11, 1977. The film, a gender-reversed version of the film "It's a Wonderful Life", centers on Mary Bailey Hatch, a young woman who dreams of seeing the world but is forced by circumstances to remain in her small hometown as head of the family's Building & Loan business. On a Christmas Eve, in a moment of financial crisis, a severely depressed Mary contemplates