Producer: Frank Capra & Harry Cohn
Director: Frank Capra
Awards: Here is the first movie to win the top major Academy Awards at the Oscars: Best, Actor, Actress, Director, Picture and Writing. It has also won a PGA & NBR award along with and award from the National Film Registry. It was also nominated for the Mussolini Cup.
Interesting Fact: Many other actors were offered the leads but turned it down. Among them are: Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy & Constance Bennett. Even Gable and Colbert were unhappy to be a part of it. Rumor has it that on the first day of the set Gable walked and said: "Let's get this over with." Colbert salary was doubled to keep her on and she skipped the Oscars ceremony to leave on a trip. Before she boarded they found her and rushed her into the Awards for her acceptance speech in her traveling clothes.
My Favorite Scene: The hitch-hiking scene is my favorite. Seeing Gable portray frustration is priceless.
A spoiled woman is betrothed to a man she doesn't love and runs away to escape her father. On a bus she runs into an arrogant traveler who turns out to be a reporter looking for a story. Not wanting to loose sight of her they stick together as they keep running. Though they can't stand each other from the start they soon begin to fall in love. Now that he feels quilt about his alternative motive he seeks to correct it. While he is gone she suddenly realizes that maybe her love was one sided and returns to her father. With everything upside down from the way it was it seems they may never be together.
-"Why didn't you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars."
-"Well, ooo, I'll remember that when we need forty cars."
*Trailer
*Here is my favorite scene.
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