The Shop Around the Corner

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The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American Christmas romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and Joseph Schildkraut. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László. The film is about two employees at a leather goods shop in pre-war Budapest who can barely stand each other, not realizing they are falling in love as anonymous correspondents through their letters. It follows social themes associated with the lives of the middle class. Though the film did not do well at the box office, it was met with generally positive reviews from film critics. It has since been adapted into three productions. In 1999, The Shop Around the Corner was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, deemed as "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and is also included in the all-time top 100 movies selected by Time magazine.

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