Director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin reworked a short story from an issue of Cosmopolitan to make their .little picture. for Columbia Studios. Working at a brisk pace from a script about a spoiled brat heiress on the run who meets a .fresh guy. reporter on a night bus to New York, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.s irrepressible chemistry lit up the screen. They have the time of their lives volleying insults .til their characters succumb to their inevitable romantic fate.