The legends persist of how Gable and Colbert and the other actors initially offered the roles (Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy) all hated the script. Perhaps that was because, as I realize upon second viewing, it is a movie about nothing. Today we recognize that Gable plays a Seinfeld character, a master of the irrelevant, speechifying about the idiosyncrasies of a man undressing, the art of the piggyback ride and proper technique for thumbing a ride. I imagine Colbert throwing one of her little tantrums on the set, "It's just so much fluff!"
Has ever there been a woman as improbably beautiful as Claudette Colbert? Those large eyes set wide in an impossibly heart-shaped face suggest the missing link between the real world and anime.
A favorite bit of movie trivia is that It Happened One Night was the first film to sweep the five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay. Only two other films have done so, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs.
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