The Shop Around the Corner
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| Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Produced by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Written by | Samson Raphaelson Ben Hecht (uncredited) |
| Starring | Margaret Sullavan James Stewart |
| Music by | Werner R. Heymann |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
| Editing by | Gene Ruggiero |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | January 12, 1940 |
| Running time | 99 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Shop Around the Corner is an Ernst Lubitsch-directed, 1940 romantic comedy film starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. It appears to have been inspired by Parfumerie (1937), a Hungarian play written by Miklós László.[1] The film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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[edit] Plot
Set in Budapest, the film is about co-workers Klara (Margaret Sullavan) and Alfred (James Stewart) who hold an intense dislike for each other, while maintaining a secret letter-writing relationship, not realizing who is their secret pen-pal.
[edit] Cast
- Margaret Sullavan – Klara Novak
- James Stewart – Alfred Kralik
- Frank Morgan – Hugo Matuschek
- Joseph Schildkraut – Ferencz Vadas
- Sara Haden – Flora Kaczek
- Felix Bressart – Pirovitch
- William Tracy – Pepi Katona
- Inez Courtney – Ilona Novotny
[edit] Remakes
The film spawned a 1949 musical remake, In the Good Old Summertime and a 1998 remake, You've Got Mail.
The Broadway musical, She Loves Me, was also inspired by the film. This 1963 show starred Barbara Cook and Jack Cassidy, who won a Tony for his supporting role. It was directed by Harold Prince (his first musical) and the score was by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. While not a huge success in its first Broadway run, it eventually resulted in Broadway and London revivals in the 1990s.
