The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner

Infobox Film
name = The Shop Around the Corner


imdb_id = 0033045
producer = Ernst Lubitsch
director = Ernst Lubitsch
writer = Samson Raphaelson
Ben Hecht (uncredited)
starring = Margaret Sullavan
James Stewart
Frank Morgan
music = Werner R. Heymann
cinematography = William H. Daniels
editing = Gene Ruggiero
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = January 12, 1940
runtime = 99 min.
language = English

"The Shop Around the Corner" (1940) is a romantic comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. It appears to have been inspired by "Parfumerie" (1937), a Hungarian play written by Miklós László.Seay, "Parfumerie", 2004.] This film was ranked #28 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions. In 1999, "The Shop Around the Corner" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot

Set in and around a Budapest store, co-workers Klara (Margaret Sullavan) and Alfred (James Stewart) hold an intense dislike for each other, while maintaining a secret letter-writing relationship, neither realizing whom their pen-pal is. They fall in love via their correspondence, while being antipathic and peevish towards one another in real life. A major subplot concerns the apparent infidelity of the store owner's wife, and its spillover effect upon the various working relationships in the shop."The Shop Around the Corner", "All-TIME 100 best Films", 2005.]

Reviews

David Thomson wrote of it:fact|date=October 2007:"The Shop Around the Corner"... is among the greatest of films... This is a love story about a couple too much in love with love to fall tidily into each other's arms. Though it all works out finally, a mystery is left, plus the fear of how easily good people can miss their chances. Beautifully written (by Lubitsch's favorite writer, Samson Raphaelson), "Shop Around the Corner" is a treasury of hopes and anxieties based in the desperate faces of Stewart and Sullavan. It is a comedy so good it frightens us for them. The cafe conversation may be the best meeting in American film. The shot of Sullavan's gloved hand, and then her ruined face, searching an empty mail box for a letter is one of the most fragile moments in film. For an instant, the ravishing Sullavan looks old and ill, touched by loss.

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

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.

The British show Are You Being Served was based on the comedy ["PBS Behind the Sceen" page 271]

Notes

References

*cite web|accessdate=2007-10-21
url=http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,the_shop_around_the_corner,00.html
title="The Shop Around The Corner"
work=All-TIME 100 Best Films
publisher="TIME" Magazine
date=2005

*cite web|accessdate=2007-10-21
url=http://www.loc.gov/film/titles.html
title= Films Selected to The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1989-2006
work=National Film Registry
publisher=National Film Preservation Foundation

*cite web|accessdate=2007-10-21
url=http://www.pamphletpress.org/index.cfm?sec=7&story_id=4
title= Parfumerie |author=Seay, James L.
publisher=Pamphlet Press |date=2004

External links

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* [http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=2177 View trailer]


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