 The theme of love, for example, as a bridge across class and social divide is also central to the film "It Happened One Night".Like Claudette Colbert's character Ellen Andrews, Myrna Loy's Alice Higgins rebels against the wealth and privilege of her father's world and the constraints they impose on her search of legitimate love.These constraints are comically underscored in the dinner scenes where the entire Higgins family eats in regimented style.