The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner

1940 | 1h 42m | Comedy, Romance | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan star in this charming 1940 comedy about unwitting pen pals who find love in pre-World War II Budapest. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch (Ninotchka). With Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz).

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Ernst Lubitsch

CAST

James Stewart

Margaret Sullavan

Frank Morgan

Joseph Schildkraut

Sara Haden

PRODUCERS

Ernst Lubitsch

WRITERS

Samson Raphaelson

Host Intros

02:08
Alicia Malone Intro -- The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Intro Aired: May 2019
TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
07:59
The Shop Around The Corner (1940) -- Ben Mankiewicz and Christopher Carhart
Intro Aired: Apr 2019
TCM fan Christopher Carhart joins Ben Mankiewicz for an introduction and comments following The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
08:43
Christmas Classics -- The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Intro Aired: Dec 2018
Introduction and comments following The Shop Around The Corner, 1940, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Jeremy Arnold.
01:43
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Intro Aired: Dec 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Shop Around The Corner/B>, 1940.
01:47
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Intro Aired: Dec 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
01:29
Tiffany Vazquez Intro -- The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Intro Aired: Dec 2016
TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
01:55
Robert Osborne Intro -- The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Intro Aired: Dec 2015
Robert Osborne introduces The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.

Related Videos

03:27
Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) So She's Not So Very Pretty?
Clip
Six months since the opening, Klara (Margaret Sullavan), still the junior clerk, joins senior clerk Alfred (James Stewart), with whom she tangles, before he tells Pirovitch (Felix Bressart) of his advancing anonymous pen-pal romance, in Ernst Lubitschs The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
04:00
Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Matuschek And Company
Clip
Under Ernst Lubitschs direction from Samson Raphaelsons script, smooth introduction of Pepi, Pirovitch, Flora, Ilona, Kralik, Vadas and boss Matuschek (William Tracy, Felix Bressart, Sara Haden, Inez Courtney, star James Stewart, Joseph Schildkraut and Frank Morgan), opening The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
04:00
Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe You Could Use Me?
Clip
In contemporary Budapest, boss Matuschek (Frank Morgan) fuming, so staff including Kralik (James Stewart) are lying low when Klara (Margaret Sullavan) makes her first appearance, reluctant to admit shes looking for work, in director Ernst Lubitschs The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
03:17
Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) That's Why We're So Feminine
Clip
The audience has deduced that feuding Alfred (James Stewart) and Klara (Margaret Sullavan) must be each others secret pen pals, both panicking because the boss wants them to work late, on the evening theyve arranged to finally meet, in Ernst Lubitschs The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
03:45
Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Poetry And Meanness
Clip
Famous scene from director Ernst Lubitsch, Klara (Margaret Sullavan) waits in a Budapest cafe, a carnation in Tolstoy her signal, to meet her secret pen pal, and Alfred (James Stewart), her enemy at work, fired earlier that day, has found out its him, in The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.
04:04
Shop Around the Corner, The - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
Feuding co-workers don't realize they're secret romantic penpals in The Shop Around the Corner (1940).

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