Barry Hughes

Yesterday as I was watching a couple of movies from 1933 and 1934 I was sort of caught off guard as to how fast time passes by you. Born in 1963, these movies didn’t seem to be too old. By the age of 10 they were just 40 years old. Most of the stars where still alive in 1970.

Today, almost 80 years has past and hardly any actor is still alive. Most of the actors were born in the 1800′s which is now 2 centuries ago. How much the world has changed since that time. They don’t know what we know today. Is that good or bad?

I had no point in this post it was just an observation. Sad on the one hand and fond memories of simpler times on the other which in and of itself is sad to some degree.

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American comedy film with elements of screwball 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 story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. It Happened One Night was one of the last film romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934. In spite of its title the movie takes place over several nights and none is particularly key to the plot.

The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and later by The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In 1993, It Happened One Night was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” See Top 100 Movies of all time.