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It Happened One Night

In the last of the present series, Paul Gambaccini looks back to the 7th Academy Awards in 1935 where for the first time one film took all five top prizes: It Happened One Night.

It happened one night in February 1935 that a film, that had been largely ignored by the critics, romped for the first time in Oscar history to all five top awards. In this final programme in the current series, Paul Gambaccini tells the story of the triumph of 鈥淚t Happened One Night鈥. It was the 鈥榮leeper hit鈥 of 1934, that captured for its stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable the Oscars for best acting, and for its director, the soon-to-be legendary Frank Capra, the best director gong. The story of how and why Colbert almost missed the Tinseltown ceremony and Clark Gable only made the film because his boss wanted to punish him are two of the surprising twists in the story of this Depression-era classic romantic comedy.

Producer: Simon Elmes

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Mar 2019 10:30

Broadcast

  • Sat 2 Mar 2019 10:30

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