The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
- Starring:
- Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Shop Around the Corner
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, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 99 mins
Complete Cast of The Shop Around the Corner
- Margaret Sullavan - Klara Novak
- Frank Morgan - Hugo Matuschek
- Sara Haden - Flora
- William Tracy - Pepi Katena
- Sarah Edwards - Woman Customer
- Charles Halton - Detective
- Charles Arnt - Policeman
- Claire Du Brey - Customer
- Renie Riano - Customer
- Gertrude Simpson - Women Customer
- William Edmunds - Waiter
- Joan Blair - Customer
- James Stewart - Alfred Kralik
- Joseph Schildkraut - Ferencz Vadas
- Felix Bressart - Pirovitch
- Inez Courtney - Ilona
- Edwin Maxwell - Doctor
- Charles Smith - Rudy
- Mary Carr - Grandmother
- Grace Hayle - Plump Woman
- Ruth Warren - Customer
- Mira McKinney - Customer
- Mabel Colcord - Aunt Anna
- Director(s):
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Writer(s):
- Samson Raphaelson
- Producer(s):
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR(Adult Situations)
- 1999 - Library of Congress - U.S. National Film Registry
- 1940 - National Board of Review - Best Acting
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