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 It Happened One Night Quotes
4,786 words, approx. 16 pages
 It Happened One Night is a 1934 film about a spoiled heiress, running away from her family, who is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story but who then falls for her. Directed by Frank Capra . Written by Robert Riskin , based on a...
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Frank Capra | | Birth Date: |
May 18, 1897 | | Death Date: |
September 3, 1991 | | Place of Birth: |
Palermo, Italy | | Place of Death: |
Los Angeles, California, United States | | Nationality: |
American, Italian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
filmmaker |
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 Biography of Frank Capra
1494 words, approx. 5 pages
Filmmaker Frank Capra (1897-1991) was 1930s Hollywood's top director, creating several immensely popular movies that captured the mood of the Depression-era United States and earning more Academy Award nominations than any of his contemporaries. "Capraco... summary from source:
 Biography of Frank Capra
3356 words, approx. 11.2 pages
 Director, writer, and producer Frank Capra, who made over fifty movies in a career spanning almost four decades, is best remembered for showcasing the virtues of ordinary people in sentimental human comedies, films such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, w...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 It Happened One Night Summary
1,083 words, approx. 4 pagesA spoiled and willful young heiress, cocooned from reality by bodyguards and her father's trillions, jumps ship off the Florida coast when her father wishes to have her recent unconsummated marriage to a gold-digging roue annulled. Her worried... summary from source:
It's a Wonderful Life Summary
914 words, approx. 3 pagesAlthough a box office failure in 1946, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life today is a well-loved Christmas classic for many Americans. Combining sentimental nostalgia and tough realism to deliver a popular message of faith in God and... summary from source:
 It Happened One Night Information
2,278 words, approx. 8 pages
It Happened One Night is a 1934 romantic comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot was based on the...
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 The Village Voice It happened one night
09/11/2002: 475 words, approx. 2 pages 'Dancenow/NYC' Opener Sets Historic Firehouse Ablaze In a cab last Thursday at dusk-rushing between a panel at the Joyce Soho on the future of dance and the opening event of the "dancenow/NYC 2002" festival at the Firehouse Community Space-I was overcome with the... summary from source:
The Washington Post It Happened One Night: Three Meals
08/06/2003: 2,539 words, approx. 9 pages Summer's pace by now has taken hold of the cooks in the house. The memories of busy spring feeding and entertaining schedules have vanished. The prospect of September's potlucks, bake sales and football tailgating still seems far away. By the first week in August... summary from source:
 AP News 1998 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 496 words, approx. 2 pagesThe American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'... summary from source:
AP News 2007 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 493 words, approx. 2 pagesThe American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.8. "Schindler's List," 1993.9. "Vertigo," 1958.10. "The Wizard of Oz,"...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mordaunt Hall
196 words, approx. 1 pages
There are few serious moments in "It Happened One Night," a screen feast …, and if there is a welter of improbable incidents these hectic doings serve to generate plenty of laughter. The pseudo suspense is kept on the wing until a few seconds before the picture ends, but it is a foregone conclusion that the producers would never dare to have the characters … separated when the curtain falls…. "It Happened One Night" is a good piece of fiction, which, with all... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Otis C. Ferguson
176 words, approx. 1 pages
Considering its subject, ["It Happened One Night"] is better than it has any right to be—better acted, better directed, better written…. [Everybody] being in love with everybody else in pleasantly conclusive fashion, there enters more confusion as to who loves whom and why than might be expected of a Molière comedy. Barring the incidents of the bus ride, the outlines of the story have a deadly enough familiarity all through anyway. What the picture as a whole shows is that...
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