It Happened One Night: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

This trailer from It Happened One Night shows Clark Gable giving Claudette Colbert tips on how to get drivers to pick up a hitchhiker.

The 1934 movie was released 77 years ago yet the trailer is a high quality clip considering how old it is.

Both Gable and Colbert would win best actor Oscars for the movie while director Frank Capra would win the Best Director award and the film received best picture award in 1935.

They would later appear on radio in the same roles for a radio version of It Happened One Night on Lux Radio Theater.

Ward Bond who later would star in the television series Wagon Train portrayed a bus driver in the movie.

Claudette Colbert said after completing the movie that she had just made the worst movie ever but it turned out to be a huge hit showing she knew more about acting than the business side of making movies.

Marilyn Scott: You Don’t Know Me

Marilyn Scott singing You Don’t Know Me.

It has been 32 years since Marilyn Scott recorded her first album in 1979 yet she is not that well known. Still despite her lack of recognition she is to me one of the best vocal jazz singers today. The jazz background music in her recordings makes her music stand out even more.

This audio version of Close Enough is an excellent example of Marilyn Scott’s music. I can’t think of any other contemporary singer that comes close to the sound of Scott.

Marilyn Scott was 30 before she recorded her first album and has recorded only twelve albums during her 32 year recording career. She is now 61 and it is sad that her music isn’t better known among mainstream music fans.