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Episode 40: It Happened One Night
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Let’s go back…back to the beginning. We venture into cinema history with one of the original RomComs films: It Happened One Night.
Starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night is the story of Peter and Ellie. Ellie has recently eloped with a pilot King Wesley. Ellie’s father thinks Wesley is after his family’s fortune and separates Ellie from Wesley. Ellie runs away to New York City and along the way, she meets Peter, a journalist, who sees Ellie’s story as his ticket for his big break.
This story has many of the elements we see in the…
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