Famous Lines to Remember
Arguably, the film’s most famous scene in Franck Capra’s Oscar-winning comedy, “It Happened One Night,” is the one in which Claudette Colbert hitches a ride by simply raising her skirt, after which she notes: “Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.”
A jealous and resentful Clark Gable snaps back, “Why didn’t you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.”
