The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | |
| Director(s) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Producer(s) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Christmas, Mistaken Identity, Romance (Comic), Sales Clerk |
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and produced by Ernst Lubitsch.
SYNOPSIS
One of Lubitsch's most beloved romantic comedies is about two feuding employees (Stewart and Sullavan) in Morgan's Budapest store who, unbeknownst to each other, are actually carrying on an amorous pen pal correspondence. On the night the correspondents finally agree to meet, each expecting a proposal, Mogan fires Stewart and makes Sullavan stay late. But through circumstance and one more letter, the scales finally drop from the eyes of the epistolary lovers. Truly a sweet tale with winning performances by Stewart and Sullavan. Remade in 1949 as a musical, In the Good Old Summertime (with Judy Garland and Van Johnson), a Broadway play, She Loves Me, and most recently via email as You've Got Mail (1998), with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.The Shop Around the Corner was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999.
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The Shop Around The Corner (1940): A Christmas Love Story
By 4 Star Film Fan on Dec 25, 2021 From 4 Star FilmsThe Shop Around The Corner samples a Hollywood-style Hungary that nevertheless establishes it as a much humbler, quieter picture than seasoned Lubitsch aficionados might be accustomed to. It’s subsequently one of his best efforts for this very reason. There’s an intimacy to it, recalling... Read full article
Holiday Delight on Blu-ray: It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947), Holiday Affair (1949), and The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
By KC on Dec 9, 2020 From Classic MoviesFor over ten years on this site I have been banging the drum every holiday season about It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947), Holiday Affair (1949), and The Shop Around the Corner (1940). I never felt like they got enough love, though awareness of these charming films appears to have grown at a steady p... Read full article
Celebrating "The Shop Around the Corner" on its 80th Birthday
By The Lady Eve on Jan 10, 2020 From Lady Eve's Reel LifeToday marks the 80th anniversary of the premiere of what has been called Ernst Lubitsch’s “most discreet tour de force of art concealing art,” The Shop Around the Corner (1940). That’s a nicely spun phrase; some might simply call it perfection… ~ When she was asked,... Read full article
25 Days of Christmas: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
on Dec 7, 2017 From Journeys in Classic FilmOriginally published December 1st, 2014 As one comment on the Facebook page read when I alluded to my less-than-positive review of this film, it may be time to get out your pitchforks, readers. ?It’s not that I didn’t like The Shop Around the Corner; it’s just not my favorite Ernst... Read full article
25 Days of Christmas: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
on Dec 4, 2016 From Journeys in Classic FilmOriginally published December 1st, 2014 As one comment on the Facebook page read when I alluded to my less-than-positive review of this film, it may be time to get out your pitchforks, readers. ?It’s not that I didn’t like The Shop Around the Corner; it’s just not my favorite Ernst... Read full article
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Quotes from
Alfred Kralik: Yes, well, you treated me like a dog.
Klara Novak (Miss Novak): Yes, but instead of licking my hand, you barked.
Alfred Kralik: Pirovitch, did you ever get a bonus?
Pirovitch: Yes, once.
Alfred Kralik: Yeah. The boss hands you the envelope. You wonder how much is in it, and you don't want to open it. As long as the envelope's closed, you're a millionaire.
[Alfred Kralik has just been called into his supervisor's office]
Alfred Kralik: Yes, Mr. Matuschek
Hugo Matuschek: Eh, close the door. Kralik, why did you put me in that situation, in front of the whole shop?
Alfred Kralik: Well, I'm very sorry, sir... but it was not my fault.
Hugo Matuschek: Well whose fault was it? Mine?
Alfred Kralik: Well... yes.
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Facts about
To make sure his film was stripped of the glamor usually associated with him, Lubitsch went to such lengths as ordering that a dress Sullavan had purchased off the rack for $1.98 be left in the sun to bleach and altered to fit poorly.
Several people who are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were the Customers, Claire Du Brey, Mira McKinney, Renie Riano and Ruth Warren.
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