The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and Joseph Schildkraut. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László. The film is about two employees at a leather goods shop in pre-war Budapest who can barely stand each other, not realizing they are falling in love as anonymous correspondents through their letters. It follows social themes associated with the lives of the middle class. Though the film did not do well in the box office, it was met with generally positive reviews from film critics. It has since been adapted into three productions. In 1999 The Shop Around the Corner was selected with 24 other films to be included in the National Film Registry. It is also included in the top 100 movies selected by Time magazine.
Plot
thumb|300px|left|[[Margaret Sullavan]], [[James Stewart]] and [[Frank Morgan]] in ''The Shop Around the Corner''
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author | Ben Hecht Samson Raphaelson |
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director | Ernst Lubitsch |
editor | Gene Ruggiero |
genre | comedy-drama romance social |
keywords | annoy budapest christmas eve dark eyes delivery boy dinner date even family man :file:the shop around the corner trailer gift shop great depression meet morning mystery man mystery woman ochi chërnye open private investigator work out |
musicBy | Werner R. Heymann |
producer | Ernst Lubitsch |
productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
publisher | Loews Cineplex Entertainment |
theme | romantic comedy romantic drama |