Christmas Classics - The Shop Around The Corner (1940)

Shop Around the Corner, The - (Original Trailer)

Feuding co-workers don't realize they're secret romantic penpals in The Shop Around the Corner (1940).

Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) So She's Not So Very Pretty?

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 Lubitsch’s The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.

Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) That's Why We're So Feminine

The audience has deduced that feuding Alfred (James Stewart) and Klara (Margaret Sullavan) must be each other’s secret pen pals, both panicking because the boss wants them to work late, on the evening they’ve arranged to finally meet, in Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.

Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Poetry And Meanness

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 it’s him, in The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.

Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Matuschek And Company

Under Ernst Lubitsch’s direction from Samson Raphaelson’s 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.

Shop Around The Corner, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe You Could Use Me?

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 she’s looking for work, in director Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around The Corner, 1940.