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R5002

R5002 / Scott 4669

Great Film Directors

Frank Capra

Scene From It Happened One Night, Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert


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Great Film Directors

Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable

in Frank Capra's

"It Happened One Night"


Two legendary movie stars are the subjects of this individually hand painted First Day cover which concludes the mini-set of four Great Film Directors. Clark Gable plays a reporter in this romantic comedy which Frank Capra so expertly directed. Claudette Colbert is cast as a pampered socialite trying to become independent from her father's control and subsequently falls in love with the dashing newspaperman.


The reason I felt this Capra film was a must for the set is because it was the very first movie to win all five major Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. Be sure that you have all four covers in this gem of a set which also includes movie mega-stars Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, and Humphrey Bogart.


Whenever a new Capra directed film was released in the 1930s and 1940s, theater attendance rose dramatically. His other movies included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, Meet John Doe, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Lifè.


It is a pleasure to offer this First Day Cover that honors the best film directors of all time — a cover with superb watercoloied portraits of two Hollywood immortals — Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. It's the final piece in this wonderfully reminiscent set of four — It Happened One Night directed by Mr. Frank Capra. Collins #R5002 at $14.00.

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