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This year is the 90th Anniversary of It Happened One Night. It was the first film to win the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actor (Clark Gable), Best Actress (Claudette Colbert), and Best Screenplay. As of this writing, only two other films have won the Big Five: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Silence of the Lambs. The character Clark Gable plays is supposedly the inspiration for Bugs Bunny, though honestly I can’t see it. Gable and Colbert so have great physical presence, and at times when you watch them move it does look like seeing two cartoon characters. Such is the charm of seeing two actors not far removed from film’s Silent Age.

The plot involves a wealthy heiress, who, in defiance of her father, marries a thrillseeker who only wants her for her money. On her way to be with her husband, she runs into a reporter. The reporter wants to get the exclusive on her story, and he follows her on a cross country trek. On the way, they fall in love… but they express it by snarking at each other.

In anime terms, these two are massive tsunderes.

Notably, this movie was released four months prior to the Hayes Code. It’s a movie, after all, that wants the audience to root for Colbert to get a divorce. Even in the post-Hayes Code world that’s pretty rare. Not to mention a scene where Clark Gable strips to his bare chest in front of a married woman while they’re alone in a hotel room.

It’s also the movie that popularized one of the parodied scenes in film: when Colbert hikes up her skirt to flash leg in order to get a passing car to stop.

Man. Who knew Frank Capra could be this racy?

Bonus prompt: what is your favorite romantic comedy?