It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
For the inaugural episode, I dive into Frank Capra's populist classic, It Happened One Night (1934), starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
Works Cited:
Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002).
Richard Maltby, "It Happened One Night: The Recreation of the Patriarch," in Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System, eds. Robert Sklar and Vito Zagarrio (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 130-63.
Joseph McBride, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011).
Linda Mizejewski, It Happened One Night (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Giuliana Muscio, "Roosevelt, Arnold, and Capra (or) the Federalist-Populist Paradox," in Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System, eds. Robert Sklar and Vito Zagarrio (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 164-89.
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The Screwball Story
Celebrating classical Hollywood's daffiest genre.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- No. of episodes: 21
- Latest episode: 2023-11-04
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