The Shop Around the Corner

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James Stewart sits beside Margaret Sullavan, who is reading a letter in bed, in a scene from Shop Around the Corner (1940). A lamp and small table are visible behind them.

The Shop Around the Corner

film by Lubitsch [1940]

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Ernst Lubitsch
Films of the 1940s
…yet another classic romantic comedy, The Shop Around the Corner (1940), starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as coworkers in a notions shop in Budapest. (Lubitsch often set his films in Europe, believing that American audiences would be more tolerant of racy behaviour from European characters.) The two detest each…
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…yet another classic romantic comedy, The Shop Around the Corner (1940), starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as coworkers in a notions shop in Budapest. (Lubitsch often set his films in Europe, believing that American audiences would be more tolerant of racy behaviour from European characters.) The two detest each…
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