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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
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Synopsis
The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred Kralik (
James Stewart
) and newly hired shopgirl Klara Novak (
Margaret Sullavan
) hate each other almost at first sight. Kralik would prefer the company of the woman with whom he is corresponding by mail but has never met. Novak likewise carries a torch for her male pen pal, whom she also has never laid eyes on. It doesn't take a PhD degree to figure out that Kralik and Novak have been writing letters to each other. The film's many subplots are carried by
Frank Morgan
as the kindhearted shopkeeper and by
Joseph Schildkraut
as a backstabbing employee whose comeuppance is sure to result in spontaneous applause from the audience. Directed with comic delicacy by
Ernst Lubitsch
, this was later remade in 1949 as
In the Good Old Summertime
, and in 1998 as
You've Got Mail
. It was also musicalized as the 1963 Broadway production She Loves Me. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast
Felix Bressart
Pirovitch
Inez Courtney
Ilona
Sarah Edwards
Woman Customer
Sara Haden
Flora
Charles Halton
Detective
Edwin Maxwell
Doctor
Frank Morgan
Hugo Matuschek
Joseph Schildkraut
Ferencz Vadas
Charles Smith
Rudy
James Stewart
Alfred Kralik
Margaret Sullavan
Klara Novak
William Tracy
Pepi Katena
Production Crew
Cedric Gibbons
Art Director
Wade B. Rubottom
Art Director
William H. Daniels
Cinematographer
Werner Richard Heymann
Composer (Music Score)
Ernst Lubitsch
Director
Gene Ruggiero
Editor
Nikolaus Laszlo
Play Author
Ernst Lubitsch
Producer
Samson Raphaelson
Screenwriter
Edwin B. Willis
Set Designer
Year: 1940
Runtime: 99
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: NR
Category: Feature
Genre
Comedy
Romance
Produced by
MGM
Awards
1999 - U.S. National Film Registry - Library of Congress
1999 - U.S. National Film Registry - Library of Congress
© 2009 Spout LLC. Portions of content provided by All Movie Guide.