IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1933)****

(focus on 1930s America)

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Contains 13 movie quotes & 12 Academic Words (AWL*).
America is in its Great Depression.  A newspaperman (Clark Gable), out of work like many others, meets a spoiled rich girl (Claudette Colbert), who's running away from her father.  The newsman agrees to help the young woman reunite with her husband in New York if she'll let him have the story.  So begins a journey of discovery, and somewhere along the road, Peter and Ellie accidently fall in love in one of the great romance comedies of film history.  Directed by Frank Capra. Winner of 5 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Story.  Unrated (105min.) mike laib 2012.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025316/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_One_Night

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