Roscoe Karns
His Girl Friday
A classic screwball comedy in which Russell plays reporter Hildy Johnson, who, on the eve of her remarriage, is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband, Grant. While interviewing a condemned man, Hildy realizes that his hanging is planned as a vote-getting measure. Spontaneously, she helps the man escape.
It Happened One Night
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly), who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York, Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman, Peter Warne (Gable). When their bus breaks down, the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Peter hopes to parlay the inside story of their misadventures into a job. But complications fly when the runaway heiress and brash reporter fall in love. Directed by Frank Capra, It Happened One Night was the first movie to be honored with all five major Oscars®: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
Woman of the Year
Oscar-winners Spencer Tracy ("Pat and Mike," "Adam's Rib") and Katharine Hepburn ("The Philadelphia Story," "The African Queen") make their first feature film appearance together in this classic Oscar-winning romantic comedy about a marriage between two opposites -- a sophisticated political columnist and a sports writer -- whose combative union is held together with their love for each other. Co-starring Oscar-winner Fay Bainter ("Jezebel"), Oscar-nominee William Bendix ("Lifeboat") and Reginald Owen ("A Christmas Carol"). Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time. Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
They Drive by Night
Ti år inn i Den store depresjonen klarer Joe og Paul Fabrini (Raft og Bogart) så vidt å holde forretningen gående. Paul drømmer om mer tid med kona, og Joe har et godt øye til servitrisen Cassie Hartley (Ann Sheridan). Så mister Paul en arm i en ulykke og kan ikke kjøre lenger. Men da Lana Carlson (Ida Lupino), kona til Fabrini-brødrenes erkerival, forelsker seg i Joe, dreper hun ektemannen og tilbyr brødrene en andel i selskapet. Joe vil ikke gifte seg med henne, og Lana anklager Joe for drapet på ektemannen.
Yokel Boy
The head of a film studio hires a farmer, who holds the world's record for attending movies, as a publicity stunt to bolster his sagging business. The farmer is to be an "idea man" and is assigned the task of picking a cast for a film based on the life of Bugsy Malone. But when the farmer casts the real Bugsy in the title role, things go a little haywire.
Det hendte en natt
Filmen fikk Oscar som beste film, regi, manus, mannlig og kvinnelig hovedrolle og betød gjennombruddet for Capra som regissør og en vital fornyelse for Gable som komedieskuespiller. Den innleder og ble stilsettende for de store amerikanske 30-talls komediene.