It Happened One Night

Ben Mankiewicz introduces It Happened One Night, 1934.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces It Happened One Night, 1934.

Robert Osborne Introduces It Happened One Night, 1934.

TCM promo for Star Of The Month for May, 2017, Clark Gable, beginning Tuesday, May 2nd at 8pm ET with It Happened One Night, 1934.

Clark Gable is introduced as newsman Pete, in a southern bus depot showing off for his buddies, pretending he’s telling off his boss (Charles C. Wilson), tangling with a driver (Ward Bond), and meeting runaway heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert), in Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, 1934.

Newsman Pete (Clark Gable), now helping heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) escape her father's detectives, gets schooled in hitch-hiking, in another famous scene from Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, 1934.

Madcap heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) establishing bona-fides with some bite, for her father Alexander (Walter Connolly), opening Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, 1934, also starring Clark Gable.

Just-fired newsman Pete (Clark Gable), standing by to inform runaway heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) that she's missed her bus, he knows who she is, and he doesn't care, in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, 1934.

Brash newspaperman Pete (Clark Gable) instructs runaway heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) on the rules of men's undressing, in a famous scene from Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, 1934.

A newspaperman (Clark Gable) tracks a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) on a madcap cross-country tour in It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra.