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The Shop Around The Corner
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Alfred Kralik is the top salesman at a leathergoods shop in Budapest owned by the high-strung Mr. Hugo Matuschek. Kralik's coworkers at Matuschek and Company include his friend, Pirovitch, Ferencz Vadas, and Pepi Katona. One morning, Kralik reveals to Pirovitch that he's been corresponding anonymously with an intelligent and cultured woman whose ad he came across in the newspaper.
Alfred Kralik is the top salesman at a leathergoods shop in Budapest owned by the high-strung Mr. Hugo Matuschek. Kralik's coworkers at Matuschek and Company include his friend, Pirovitch, Ferencz Vadas, and Pepi Katona. One morning, Kralik reveals to Pirovitch that he's been corresponding anonymously with an intelligent and cultured woman whose ad he came across in the newspaper.
Actors:
Mabel Colcord,
Grace Hayle,
Claire Du Brey,
Renie Riano,
Mary Carr,
Charles Halton,
Inez Courtney
Mabel Colcord
13 August 1873, San Francisco, California, USA
Grace Hayle
24 July 1888, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Claire Du Brey
31 August 1892, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA
Renie Riano
7 August 1899, London, England, UK
Mary Carr
March 14, 1874 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
Charles Halton
16 March 1876, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Inez Courtney
12 March 1908, New York City, New York, USA
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Ernst Lubitsch #Frank Morgan #James Stewart #Margaret Sullavan #The Shop Around The Corner
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December 15, 2010
Sure, the plot-turns are foreseeable, but the film's wit and perfectly gauged performances are undimmed delights.
February 10, 2014
One of the greatest romantic comedies.
November 27, 2007
This 1940 film is one of Ernst Lubitsch's finest and most enduring works, a romantic comedy of dazzling range.
December 09, 2010
Lubitsch demonstrates that romantic comedies, like popcorn, can be enjoyed salty as well as sweet.
February 09, 2006
Thoroughly different from To Be or Not To Be but just as exhilarating, it's one of the few films truly justifying Lubitsch's reputation for a 'touch.'
December 12, 2014
Nostalgic and charming romance with special moments in the extra-narrative action.
December 05, 2008
As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot.
December 19, 2012
Wonderful period low-budget light romantic comedy taking place during the Depression among a few underpaid neurotics surviving in the workforce of a small notions store.
May 20, 2003
...a pretty kettle of bubbling brew it makes under Mr. Lubitsch's deft and tender management and with a genial company to play it gently, well this side of farce and well that side of utter seriousness.
August 16, 2011
Entertaining to a fault, the film doesn't ignite the imagination in the way many other films of the period did.
November 27, 2007
Although picture carries the indelible stamp of Ernst Lubitsch at his best in generating humor and human interest from what might appear to be unimportant situations, it carries further to impress via the outstanding characterizations by Margaret Sullavan
December 22, 2014
The charm of the gimmick in Lubitsch's take is passed over quickly in favor of studying both its effects on those involved, as well as the dynamics of the workplace at large.