Clark Gable was in It Happened One Night.
Clark Gable . Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) , and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) and for his arguably best-known role as Rhett Butler in the epic Civil War drama Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) . It Happened One Night is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra , in collaboration with Harry Cohn , in which a pampered socialite ( Claudette Colbert ) tries to get out from under her father 's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter ( Clark Gable ) .