Screwball comedy

Episode 26 – It Happened One Night (1934)

It’s 1934. It Happened One Night, a film nobody thought would do particularly well, sneaks in just before the Hays Code is enforced. The movie, directed by Frank Capra, follows pampered heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) as she tries to escape her controlling father and join her fiancĂ©. She meets with ex-reporter Peter Warne (Clark…

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