35. It Happened One Night 1934
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025316/
I just saw this movie the other day on TMC. What an adorable movie! Claudette Colbert does the famous scene where she lifts her skirt and reveals her leg to the man driving by to get him to stop. Apparently, she didn't want to do that scene when they started shooting the film.
Clark Gable, sporting the Rhett Butler pencil-thin 'stache, shows his vulnerable side and takes pity on the woman next to him on the train. He decides to help her out, and help her get to New York where she's trying to get to while running away from her over-protective father. But Gable's not all chivalry... he knows that there's something in it for him. Colbert's character has been reported missing by her father, and Gable's character is a journalist- so all he can think of is "exclusive". But along the way, the two begin to get to know each other and fall for each other.
It's a wonderful little story and was the first film to win the Oscar Grand Slam (Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Picture, Best Director & Best Screenplay).
Trivia from IMDB:
While shooting the scene where he undresses, Clark Gable had trouble removing his undershirt while keeping his humorous flow going and took too long. As a result the undershirt was abandoned altogether. This scene is credited as the number-one cause for not only the decrease in undershirt sales for the following two years, but the implementation of product placement in movies to come.
I just saw this movie the other day on TMC. What an adorable movie! Claudette Colbert does the famous scene where she lifts her skirt and reveals her leg to the man driving by to get him to stop. Apparently, she didn't want to do that scene when they started shooting the film.
Clark Gable, sporting the Rhett Butler pencil-thin 'stache, shows his vulnerable side and takes pity on the woman next to him on the train. He decides to help her out, and help her get to New York where she's trying to get to while running away from her over-protective father. But Gable's not all chivalry... he knows that there's something in it for him. Colbert's character has been reported missing by her father, and Gable's character is a journalist- so all he can think of is "exclusive". But along the way, the two begin to get to know each other and fall for each other.
It's a wonderful little story and was the first film to win the Oscar Grand Slam (Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Picture, Best Director & Best Screenplay).
Trivia from IMDB:
While shooting the scene where he undresses, Clark Gable had trouble removing his undershirt while keeping his humorous flow going and took too long. As a result the undershirt was abandoned altogether. This scene is credited as the number-one cause for not only the decrease in undershirt sales for the following two years, but the implementation of product placement in movies to come.
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