Keyword: Meet Cute

Ellie (Claudette Colbert) the runaway heiress and Peter the ex-reporter (Clark Gable) meet on a bus and quarrel over the last seat.

Molly (Jean Arthur) is taking pictures from the grandstands when Duke (John Wayne) is bucked off his bronco and lands on top of her.

Tom trots along the beach and notices the sexy Toots reading a book. He accidentally falls into a trash can, which acts like a slot machine paying off—it dumps out all its trash, including Tom, who suavely allows himself to slide over to Toots. He tips the grapefruit half on his head as if it were a hat and wriggles his eyebrows suggestively, but she's having none of it.

Eddie (Guy Madison) is on his way out of Dallas when his car stalls—coincidentally just where Perry (Diana Lynn) is sleeping by the side of the road. She tries to convince him to give her a ride, but he assumes she's "not a very nice girl."

Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) hops from car to car to escape his mobbing fans; he finally lands in Kathy's car—while she is still driving. Kathy (Debbie Reynolds) pretends not to know who the big movie star is.

Jonathan and Sara (John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale) meet when they both try to buy the last pair of gloves at a Bloomingdale's department store.

Wedding planner Mary Fiore (Jennifer Lopez) suffers the Florence Nightingale effect when Dr. Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey) saves her from a runaway dumpster that nearly flattens her as it rolls down a hilly San Francisco street.

Oliver and Emily (Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet) meet cute on a plane to New York City, then again three years later in Los Angeles, and several more times over the course of seven years as the serendipitous bond between them strengthens.

Drew (Orlando Bloom) is the only passenger on a commercial flight, and Claire (Kirsten Dunst) is the flight's lone stewardess.

Iris and Amanda (Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz) each has a "meet cute" after they swap houses for Christmas. Iris also meets retired screenwriter Arthur Abbott (Eli Wallach), who tells her just what a "meet cute" is.

Holly (Hilary Swank) is lost on a trip to Ireland when she meets Gerry (Gerard Butler) on a dirt road. He lends her his jacket, and she tells him that she's keeping it unless they meet again.

Will and April (Ryan Reynolds and Isla Fisher) meet just before Will plans to ask Emily (Elizabeth Banks) to marry him. Will tests his proposal on April and takes her breath away.

Becky Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) skips to the head of a long line at a hot dog stand, inadvertently cutting in front of Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy), the man who will soon become her boss.