Irishchatter You honestly would fall in love with it. Both James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan were just brilliant actors and the love they had for each on the film, was just so genuine and wonderful that you wish you had a boyfriend like James Stewart haha! I just love how he looked at her when her character was not knowing where the love letters came from, it reminded me of the film "You've got mail!" but this one was in classic version!I even didn't know that the man who played the shop owner played the Wizard on the movie "Wizard of Oz", he's a brilliant actor anyway regardless if he came from the movie or not! Its just so good, I feel like this movie made me fall in love with it even more. I give this a 10/10, it is just one of the bests that James Stewart has been involved in!

richard-1787 The plot of this movie is charming, yes, though of course you know from the very beginning how it will end and just wait to see how the two main characters get there.But to me the real magic of this movie is in the small, perfect moments of acting, primarily by Stewart and Morgan.Stewart can convey with just the slightest change of his face, or a hushed, half-breathed voice more deep feeling than others try to express with endless yelling and flailing of arms. There are moments in the movie, such as when Clara insults him during their meeting in the café, or when he visits Matachek in the hospital - the most moving scene in the movie for me - when I just marvel at the understated quality of his acting.The same is true of Morgan. We think of him as the Wizard of Oz, and he was great in that movie. But he was not all big gestures and exaggeration. When he faces the infidelity of his wife, and then has to apologize to Stewart for suspecting him of having an affair with his wife, or at the end when he is desperate to find someone to spend Christmas Eve with, now that he finds himself without a family to go home to, the understated perfection of his acting is really very impressive. If you have ever seen him in *Port of Seven Seas*, based on Marcel Pagnol's *Marcel* and *Fanny* plays, this won't come as any surprise to you.In 1940, when this movie was made and released, Hungary was still an independent nation, though moving closer to Germany and Italy and passing several anti-Semitic laws. (Felix Bressart, who plays Pirovitch here, would play the Jewish actor Greenberg two years later in *To Be or Not to Be* and, in his riff on Shylock's speech, enter into cinematic history.) The next year Hungary would enter World War II on the German side against Russia. But in this movie, Budapest is still a charming Eastern European city where people care about each other and everything looks warm and wonderful under the falling snowflakes.If you ever feel a need to watch great actors make miracles out of small moments, watch this. You will be amazed.

beauzee early Stewart film has him somewhat in support of Sullivan...he does well but appears to be a tad too young for the role, as fledgling Salesman in a small but successful shop in Budapest, who learns that an adversarial co-worker is actually the girl he has been writing to! the shop and environment ring of small town America...I did miss some of the early scenes...so I spent a lot of viewing time thinking I was watching a Frank Capra film! it's said that the '90s YOU'VE GOT (E-)MAIL is the "remake" of this 1940 film and strangely, Tom Hanks is every bit as dull as Jimmy Stewart is here.just like so many of today's films, this entry runs on too long and blows past many opportunities to inject some liveliness, some zaniness into the stilted proceedings.I walked away from the TV for about two minutes thinking the film was quickly winding down after the scene when the Shop's aging owner, visiting at Christmas eve, in his recuperation from a severe breakdown after learning his wife was messing around in the stockroom, takes the opportunity to invite the newest hiree, a 17 year old delivery boy, to a Christmas dinner.Thought the movie should end there, as the two walk up the snowy street, and see Jimmy and Margaret in an embrace, under a street light. But....no. More tentative romance with the two former pen pals.

Sergeant_Tibbs Otherwise known as the inspiration for the 90s Hanks/Ryan vehicle You've Got Mail, it's a little hard for us kids of the 21st Century to imagine how the concept is done through snail mail. But I shouldn't underestimate the economy of Ernst Lubitsch who skims through time and teases what's happened offscreen and keeps his sequences tightly under wraps with big events occurring within a scene. Only Lubitsch could make James Stewart a despicable person, balanced out by Stewart's natural likability. I wanted to like The Shop Around The Corner more given that it's very popular among those who made it but maybe it'll grow on me. I did love its idea of love not being superficial. Warmed my heart by its end. I'm falling for Lubitsch.8/10