Friday, February 22, 2019

๐Ÿ“˜๐ŸŽฅFriday's Film Adaptation๐ŸŽฅ๐Ÿ“˜: Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams


Summary:
Short story upon which the movie "It Happened One Night," starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is based. First published in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1933.



A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour.

Release Date: February 22, 1934
Release Time: 105 minutes

Cast:
Clark Gable as Peter Warne
Claudette Colbert as Ellen "Ellie" Andrews
Walter Connolly as Alexander Andrews
Roscoe Karns as Oscar Shapeley
Jameson Thomas as "King" Westley
Alan Hale as Danker
Arthur Hoyt as Zeke
Blanche Friderici as Zeke's wife
Charles C. Wilson as Joe Gordon
Ernie Adams as the Bag Thief
Irving Bacon as Gas Station Attendant
George Breakston as Boy Bus Passenger whose mother collapsed
Ward Bond as Bus Driver #1
Eddy Chandler as Bus Driver #2
Mickey Daniels as a Vendor on bus
Bess Flowers as Agnes, Gordon's Secretary
Harry Holman as the Auto Camp Manager at the end of the film
Claire McDowell as the collapsed Mother in the bus
Harry Todd as the Flagman at railroad crossing
Maidel Turner as the Auto Camp Manager's Wife
Wallis Clark as Lovington

Awards:
7th Academy Awards
Best Picture - Columbia Pictures (Frank Capra and Harry Cohn) - Won
Best Director - Frank Capra - Won
Best Actor - Clark Gable - Won
Best Actress - Claudette Colbert - Won
Best Writing, Adaptation - Robert Riskin - Won

AFI's 100 years . . . 
1998: 100 Movies - #35
2000: 100 Laughs - #8
2002: 100 Passions - #38
2007: 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - #46
2008: AFI's 10 Top 10: Romantic Comedy Film - #3


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Author Bio:
From the book jacket of "Sunrise to Sunset", (c) 1950:
At seventy-nine Samuel Hopkins Adams attributes his longevity, vigor and vim to neither smoking nor drinking, except when he feels like it. This is typical of the intelligent attitude toward the vagaries of life that has maintained him through the years in which he has authored more than forty books, written countless magazine articles and, as a crusading reporter, almost single-handedly accounted for the passage of the Federal Food and Drug laws which pave protected millions of his fellow citizens.

Mr. Adams' amazing knowledge of the history of upper New York State is the result of his lifelong interest in the region in which he was born. His home is Wide Waters, on the shore of Owasco, "loveliest of the Finger Lakes." From Wide Waters he still makes forways into the surrounding countryside, attending antique-auction sales "for the purpose of sneering at the prevalent junk," which he says he wouldn't put in his open hearth Franklin stove for fear of insulting it.

A graduate of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, class of 1891, Mr. Adams introduced football to the campus, played tackle on its first team, and won the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship. For these contributions to scholarship, his college conferred on him the degree of L.H.D. in 1926.


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๐Ÿ“ŒI couldn't in good conscience include the Amazon links
from third-party sellers asking unbelievable prices so
I highly recommend checking your local library
or used bookstore for a reasonably priced copy๐Ÿ“Œ

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