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  THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
Jimmy Stewart is the only reason to see THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.
THE SHOP is a mish mash of romance, comedy and drama that just doesn't quite come coherently together.
Too much time was spent on the boss and his adulterous wife and not enough on the personal lives of these characters.
www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsS/f_shop_corner.html   (593 words)

  
  The Shop Around the Corner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 film which tells the story of two people who work together in a shop who can't stand each other, not knowing that they've been conducting a love affair anonymously by mail.
The Shop Around the Corner was remade in 1998 as You've Got Mail.
In 1999 the original film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Shop_Around_the_Corner   (142 words)

  
 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He had been great friends with Sullavan since their early days in the theater in the 1920s, and some biographers have speculated that unrequited love for the actress (who married Stewart's pal, Henry Fonda, in 1931) was the reason Stewart remained a bachelor until 1949.
The modestly produced The Shop Around the Corner was a surprise hit, earning international profits of $380,000 at a time when Hollywood films were waning in the European market.
Shop Around the Corner, The (Alfred & Klara argue)
turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,85253|85254|18677,00.html   (613 words)

  
 The Shop Around the Corner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
One of the most charming and romantic films around, this 1940 comic romance finds James Stewart (Vertigo, It's A Wonderful Life) working in a small shop in Budapest and longing for a girl to call his own.
His coworker, Margaret Sullavan, feels the same, and soon they are both corresponding and falling in love with their respective pen pals.
However, "The Shop Around the Corner" is different.
kids-computer-desk.com /prod/B00006FDCV/The_Shop_Around_the_Corner.html   (796 words)

  
 The Shop Around the Corner (and in Your Mailbox, on Your iTunes...)
The Shop Around the Corner (and in Your Mailbox, on Your iTunes...)
I was immediately skeptical because it seems that connecting with a shop owner or e-tailer on a "friendly' level that is often created when one blogs with photos of themselves in an informal, friendly tone can create a sense of trust that often leads to the loostening of purse strings.
I have friends who own shops and I find myself shopping their more often than I normally would beause it feels familiar, like hanging out in their living room that just happens to be filled with great things to buy.
blog.fastcompany.com /archives/2006/08/15/the_shop_around_the_corner_and_in_your_mailbox_on_your_itunes.html   (660 words)

  
 The Shop Around The Corner - January 3, 2007 - The New York Sun
I sometimes stopped into the predecessor to the shop, now called Martin Brothers Wines & Liquors, at the corner of Broadway and 107th Street, in a long-ago incarnation as a Cuban-American bodega.
"Between the bodega and this wine shop, our family has been in business in the neighborhood for 40 years," proprietor Mike Martin, 34, told me. "My dad, Orlirio, had sailed over from Cuba in 1960 after he figured out what Castro was all about." The boat was blown off course to Mexico, but Mr.
She looks like a model - she was a model and now runs a chic Manhattan dress shop - but she talks like a cross between a drill sergeant and a cheerleader.
www.nysun.com /article/46013   (1036 words)

  
 Shop Around the Corner at skywebmedia.com
One of the most charming and romantic films around, this 1940 comic romance finds James Stewart (Vertigo, It's A Wonderful Life) working in a small shop in Budapest and longing for a girl to call his own.
You better not shop around: countering the current trend to shop around for a parish that "fits" you, Peter Feuerherd makes the case for sticking with...
Office tenants shop around as rents continue to fall.
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 The Shop Around The Corner Review | TVGuide.com
Trouble brews when the unemployed Sullavan enters the shop and begs Morgan to hire her as Christmas help.
While THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER lacks the immediate impact of the more spectacular TO BE OR NOT TO BE or HEAVEN CAN WAIT, this late entry from Lubitsch touches viewers deeply.
SHOP was later turned into a musical for Judy Garland and Van Johnson, IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME--one of Garland's most formulaic efforts.
www.tvguide.com /detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=117634&more=ucmoviereview   (474 words)

  
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 Lubitsch and the "You've Got Mail" Connection > German-Hollywood
German Ernst Lubitsch produced and directed the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner, the original film upon which 1998's You've Got Mail is based.
Lubitsch's second wife, Vivian, had suggested the title “The Little Shop Around the Corner,” but her husband dropped the “little” when he and Samson Raphaelson began work on the script (based on the play “Parfumerie” by Nikolaus Laszlo).
The Shop Around the Corner is certainly as viewable today as it was in the late 1940s.
www.germanhollywood.com /gotmail.html   (797 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)--just remade by Nora Ephron as the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan vehicle You've Got Mail--is a comedy without Budapest location photography, but Ernst Lubitsch's direction makes Magyars out of Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.
The Shop Around the Corner is a romantic comedy in the finest classic style--light, sophisticated and glowing with William Daniels' creamy lighting in the close-ups.
The Shop Around the Corner (1940), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, written by Nikolaus Laszlo, Samson Raphaelson and Ben Hecht, photographed by William Daniels and starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan, plays Dec. 11-23 with Miracle on 34th Street at the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.10.98/shoparndcorner-9849.html   (494 words)

  
 TechnoFILE Reviews "The Shop Around the Corner" on DVD
This film has to be one of the most charming and romantic films ever made, and is a great film to watch with the one you love.
He’s the strong and silent type, but he wants to be in love and has been corresponding secretly with a pen pal with whom he’s been getting very serious - though they’ve never met in the flesh.
It’s too bad it’s difficult to get many of today’s younger generation to watch fl and white movies, because The Shop Around the Corner beats the dickens out of most of today’s comedies.
www.technofile.com /dvds/shop_around_corner.html   (532 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: The Shop Around the Corner (Full Screen)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER is based on the play 'Parfumerie' by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo, and its pedigree as a product for the stage shows.
The thunderous and intimidating owner of the shop, Hugo Matuschek (Frank Morgan - the wizard in THE WIZARD OF OZ), turns to Kralik a few times in the first half of the movie and begs his honest opinion on this or that.
The setting is an odd goods shop in Budapest, staffed by a superb supporting cast, each tossing into the storyline their own minor dramas.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006FDCV   (1370 words)

  
 DVD Authority | DVD Review of The Shop Around the Corner
Before You've Got Mail debuted a few years back, the original movie that it was taken from was entitled The Shop Around the Corner.
While The Shop Around the Corner has been remade as a movie (with Judy Garland, a musical no less) and a Broadway show, this is still the best incarnation of the theme.
Like so many films of the time, The Shop Around the Corner is presented in a full-frame ratio and, for the most part, the image looks about average.
www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/6840   (989 words)

  
 The Corner Shop
These shop owners train their staff to represent them in their absence, as if their own reputation was at stake.
In the same way you are drawn to certain people, you would be drawn to their shop.
The bonus to visiting the little shop is a warm and welcoming feeling that is hard to find at a large, sterile chain store.
www.linencloset.com /articles/cornershop.html   (508 words)

  
 The Shop Around The Corner Movie, Review, Cast for The Shop Around The Corner | TVGuide.com
Working in a leather goods shop in Budapest, Stewart is the top clerk and a trusted friend of the owner, Morgan.
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www.tvguide.com /movies/shop-corner/117634   (165 words)

  
 The Shop Around the Corner Movie: The Shop Around the Corner DVD is available from Bestprices.com
Klara Novak and Alfred Kralik have fallen in love -- but if they were to pass each other on the street, they wouldn't know: they've met only as pen-pals, and haven't even signed the letters with their real names.
So when Klara applies for a job in the shop where Alfred works as head clerk, he turns her down cold...
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999.
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 Shop Around The Corner Movie Search
By using the form on the left, you will be transported to the Amazon web site where you can order Shop Around The Corner.
Movies like Shop Around The Corner may be good for a break from life, but burning excess energy by cleaning the house or taking a walk will leave you in a better state of mind.
Then when you are ready to relax, Shop Around The Corner will be there waiting for you.
threetopmovies.20fr.com /shop-around-the-corner.html   (122 words)

  
 The Shop Around the Corner - Vermont | Travel + Leisure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Shop Around the Corner - Vermont
The country store of yesteryear was an institution devised to provide one-stop shopping for people looking to pick up just about anything: incoming relatives, chunks of lard, scurrilous gossip, dried fruits, and odd-looking contraptions of all shapes and sizes.
This is the question posed by the country-store partisans of Vermont, a state whose inhabitants are ever suspicious of vulgar "improvements." Its legislators have banned billboards and restricted the construction of cell-phone towers as if they were expelling a dangerous virus from the body politic.
www.travelandleisure.com /articles/the-shop-around-the-corner   (549 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: The Shop Around the Corner
Screenwriting genius Billy Wilder must have looked upon The Shop around the Corner as movie perfection; he often returned to Lubitsch territory in his screenplays, searching for setups as perfect as this.
Besides a clever concept, The Shop around the Corner goes one better by creating a world around the lovers that we really enjoy sharing.
The Apartment made Matuschek's department store into a faceless corporate insurance company, combining the whimsy of The Shop around the Corner with the social bleakness of The Crowd.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s623shop.html   (1231 words)

  
 Jimmy Stewart
Stewart spoke in a hemming-and-hawing style which was sometimes hard on sound men but came through as sincerity to his audience.
His career was therefore built around playing a clean-cut person with good values, and his hesitating acting style gave his characters a natural feel not seen in many movies of his time.
His early film career is perhaps most notable for the films he made with director Frank Capra, including You Can't Take It With You (1938) and Mr.
www.iawl.com /jimmy_stewart.html   (510 words)

  
 exterior.ca - Outdoors Shop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Shop online at inStore your online shopping mall for everything you need: from apparel and accessories to electronics and photo, gifts and flowers to toys and games.
Workers are stocking the shelves as opening day for the Bass Pro Shop approaches.
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 THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
There is no better movie to show in the shop laden town of San Anselmo then this one.
Working in a leather goods shop in Budapest, Stewart is the top clerk and a trusted friend of the owner Mr.
Trouble brews when the unemployed Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) enters the shop and begs Morgan to hire her as Christmas help.
www.filmnight.org /shoparound.htm   (435 words)

  
 Around Naples Encyclopedia 22
The church/monastery of San Gregorio Armeno is in the heart of the historic center of Naples and has given its name to the street on which it is situated.
The digs are snaking their way back from the entrance of the exhibit through a honeycomb of Roman ruins, only a small portion of which are, as yet, part of the display.
The area focused around two central points and included the "Crystal Palace" and a number of hotels and beach establishments, private villas, exposition halls, and thermal bath facilities.
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 City Pages - Touching Lubitsch
Bedridden in Budapest: James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner.
Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner came out in 1940 as part of a famously blessed, two-year string of hits and masterpieces that proved the studio system could sometimes work: The Wizard of Oz, How Green Was My Valley, Rebecca, Gone With the Wind, Dark Victory, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, Mr.
The Shop Around the Corner was not a runaway hit in its time, but it later inspired both movie- and stage-based musicals (In the Good Old Summertime and She Loves Me).
www.citypages.com /databank/18/889/article3936.asp   (1207 words)

  
 Reviews and Reflections: The Shop Around The Corner, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Reviews and Reflections: The Shop Around The Corner, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
his talent and originality were stupefying." The Shop Around The Corner is typical of his films: bittersweet, intelligent and sophisticated, and with that quintessential warmth and humanity.
From The American Film Institute, a program of their outstanding series The Lubitsch Touch, which included The Shop Around The Corner.
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 The Jimmy Stewart Filmography: The Shop Around the Corner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan and Joseph Schildkraut make The Shop Around the Corner a pleasant place to browse in.
He exchanges anonymous love letters with lonely heart Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan), who also happens to be working in the shop.
When his boss discovers that it is another clerk who has been having an affair with his wife, he hires Kralik back at an increase in pay, and, of course, Kralik and Novak discover that they love each other.
www.jimmy.org /cgi-bin/showtime.cgi?id=tsatc   (204 words)

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