It Happened One Night

'It Happened One Night' is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy. A grandiose socialite in Claudette Colbert, tries to get from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a reporter. The plot was based on the August 1933 short story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams. It Happened One Night was one of the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934. In spite of its title the movie takes place over several nights. This movie set the pace for the "screwball" comedy, the witty and romantic clash of temperaments between a man and a woman mismatched in both personality and social position, a type of movie often associated with Katherine Hepburn in such classics as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), and other classics. 'It Happened One Night' did not invent the romantic comedy, but it added new layers to it. It's more than a touch dated, and women today may bristle at the attitudes of the men in the movie, but this is just a great old classic romance with two terrific stars, entertaining and satisfying. CHECKLIST FOR PLAGIARISM 1) (*) I have not handed in this assignment for any other class. 2) (*) If I reused any information from other papers I have written for other classes, I clearly explain that in the paper. 3) (*) If I used any passages word for word, I put quotations around those words, or used indentation and citation within the text. 4) (*) I have not padded the bibliography. I have used all sources cited in the bibliography in the text of the paper. 5) (*) I have cited in the bibliography only the pages I personally read. 6) (*) I have used direct quotations only in cases where it could not be stated in another way. I cited the source within the paper and in the bibliography. 7) (*) I did not so over-use direct quotations that the paper lacks interpretation or originality. 8) (*) I checked yes on steps 1-7 and therefore have been fully transparent about the research and ideas used in my paper. Carla Baylor.