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Claudette Colbert lifting her skirt to stop a car
This is another classic moment from cinema history. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is filled with wonderful tension between the sexes, and teases the audience with its sexuality (of course still tame -- remember, this was 1934, where the most stunning thing about the film was Gable appearing without his shirt on!) But one of the more interesting and fun scenes is this scene where Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, stranded on the road, are attempting to hitchhike and get a ride. Gable has been completely unsuccessful, as car after car after car drives by very quickly. In desperation he gives up -- Colbert says she can get a car to stop right away. Of course Gable doesn't believe her and she goes to prove it. She wanders out to the road, and just when she sees a car coming, she pulls up her skirt a little bit to reveal her legs, and of course the driver immediately stops! And Gable and Colbert have their ride -- and the war between the sexes continues! |
