Every Best Picture - It Happened One Night (1934) - Academy Award Winners Series

Our journey to review every Academy Award Best Picture continues with the winner of the 7th Academy Awards trophy "It Happened One Night". Arguably the first "screwball comedy" which set the stage for future "rom-coms" starred Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert and was directed by Frank Capra.

0:00 - Intro

0:55 - It Happened One Night at the 1934 Academy Awards

2:32 - It Happened One Night synopsis

3:30 - Some pre-Code liberties taken

5:06 - James explains the Hayes “Code”

7:42 - It Happened One Night could have been made today

11:47 - Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable

19:00 - Gender changes since 1934

24:15 - “I loved seeing Alan Hale”

25:34 - Best Picture contenders 1934