Tuesday, December 21, 2010

MOVIES 'The Shop Around the Corner'

1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.

Set in and around a Budapest store, co-workers Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) and Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) hold an intense dislike for each other, while maintaining a secret letter-writing relationship, neither realizing who 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.  Comic relief is provided throughout by William Tracy's characterization of Pepi the delivery boy.

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