November 23 movie: It Happened One Night. I don't know if the story is true that this movie decimated the undershirt industry, but I do know that it's a nearly perfect romantic comedy. Colbert and Gable are both in top form, and they needed to be to sustain a movie in which they spend so much time alone together on screen. There are a lot of famous scenes in this movie: Colbert running away in her wedding dress, Gable teaching Colbert how to hitch-hike, Gable and Colbert undressing behind "the wall of Jericho." But my favorite scene is the magnificent Alan Hale singing his goofy songs: "Young people in LOOOVE are very seldom HUUUNGRY!"
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