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The Shop Around the Corner
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
1940 · Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · 99 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · 17 frames
Tagline
EVERY GIRL OR FELLOW WHO EVER KEPT A “BLIND DATE”
Crew
- Screenplay: Samson Raphaelson
- Cinematography: William H. Daniels
- Edited by: Gene Ruggiero
- Music: Werner R. Heymann
- Produced by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
- Margaret Sullavan as Klara Novak
- James Stewart as Alfred Kralik
- Frank Morgan as Hugo Matuschek
- Joseph Schildkraut as Ferencz Vadas
- Sara Haden as Flora
- Felix Bressart as Pirovitch
- William Tracy as Pepi Katona
- Inez Courtney as Ilona
- Sarah Edwards as Woman Customer
- Edwin Maxwell as Doctor
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget: $500,000
- Themes: salesclerk, secret love, lovesickness, budapest, hungary, anonymous letter, man woman relationship, pen pals, love, black and white, co-workers relationship
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