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The Shop Around the Corner
Directed by
Ernst Lubitsch
Not Rated
1940
1h 39m
Comedy
,
Romance
,
and more
8.0
99%
91%
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Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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Cast of The Shop Around the Corner
Margaret Sullavan
Klara Novak
James Stewart
Alfred Kralik
Frank Morgan
Hugo Matuschek
Joseph Schildkraut
Ferencz Vadas
Sara Haden
Flora
Felix Bressart
Pirovitch
William Tracy
Pepi Katona
Inez Courtney
Ilona
Sarah Edwards
Woman Customer
Edwin Maxwell
Doctor
Charles Halton
Detective
Charles Smith
Rudy
Charles Arnt
Policeman (uncredited)
Joan Blair
Customer (uncredited)
Mary Carr
Grandmother (uncredited)
Mabel Colcord
Aunt Anna (uncredited)
Claire Du Brey
Customer (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Waiter (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
Plump Woman (uncredited)
Mira McKinney
Customer (uncredited)
Sol Murgi
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Renie Riano
Customer (uncredited)
Gertrude Simpson
Customer (uncredited)
Ruth Warren
Customer (uncredited)
Ernst Lubitsch
Director / Producer
Ben Hecht
Writer
The Shop Around the Corner Ratings & Reviews
Kylacham
June 15, 2025
Before Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail, there was The Shop Around the Corner. James Stewart being as charming as ever, even when he's not, and supporting characters that feel like they just walked off a Frank Capra film, make this a feel-good romance that is well worth your time.
New York Times
Frank S. Nugent
A pretty kettle of bubbling brew it makes under Mr. Lubitsch's deft and tender management and with a genial company to play it gently, well this side of farce and well that side of utter seriousness.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
It is told in such a way as to warm the cockles of the heart and send the audience away from the theatre the better for having been permitted this intimate glimpse into the lives and loves of the personnel of the Matuschek store in Budapest.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Katherine Howard
When the great [Lubitsch's] name appears at the head of the production list, it's a lead pipe cinch that the fan will leave the theater with a chuckle and a feeling of satisfaction.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
Adroitly directed by the screen wise Lubitsch, The Shop Around the corner turns out to be one of those films about which we say: "It is a LOVELY thing!"
Newsweek
Newsweek Staff
In bringing warmth and his customary piquant humor to the emotions and problems of these workaday folk, Lubitsch is assisted by some knowing players. Teamed for the third time, James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are perfectly cast as the youngsters.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Close to perfection -- one of the most beautifully acted and paced romantic comedies ever made in this country.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
While The Shop Around the Corner lacks the political horizons of Ninotchka, it is a picture of infinite charm, and no little graceful humor --one of Lubitsch's best productions. It yields also, perhaps, Miss Sullavan's performance of greatest finesse.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
William Tracy steals every scene in which he appears, as the fresh, alert errand boy who provides his own metamorphosis to the exalted rank or clerk.
Detroit News
Len G. Shaw
They make a pleasing pair of battlers, Stewart very earnest and diffident, Miss Sullavan saucy and sweet to behold. Morgan gets his share of honors as the crabbed but warm-hearted shopkeeper
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Colvin McPherson
A pleasure.
Boston Globe
Globe Staff
A pleasant, amazingly effective little story about everyday people who work in a small leather goods shop, and have their romances, their tragedies and their triumphs, and yet remain neighborly and casual.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The real surprise is in how earnestly the director of some of the finest, spikiest romantic comedies ever made is willing to step off the gas and let heartfelt romance win the day. And it so very winning.
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
Shop is one of the most perceptive movies ever made about the workplace: It sees employees as members of a fractious family and acknowledges that each has a story worth telling (the focus on two potential lovers seems mere happy accident).
Slant Magazine
Jaime N. Christley
The charm of the gimmick in Lubitsch's take is passed over quickly in favor of studying both its effects on those involved, as well as the dynamics of the workplace at large.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
An unalloyed delight.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot.
Variety
Variety Staff
Although picture carries the indelible stamp of Ernst Lubitsch at his best in generating humor and human interest from what might appear to be unimportant situations, it carries further to impress via the outstanding characterizations by Margaret Sullavan
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
This 1940 film is one of Ernst Lubitsch's finest and most enduring works, a romantic comedy of dazzling range.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
Who but Lubitsch could have pulled off such a winning romantic comedy that dares to include, but is not marred by, such tragic undercurrents adultery, attempted suicide?
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