The Shop Around the Corner

EVERY GIRL OR FELLOW WHO EVER KEPT A “BLIND DATE”

8.1/1019401h 39mReleased

ComedyDramaRomance

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Released: Jan 12, 1940

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Margaret Sullavan

Klara Novak

James Stewart

Alfred Kralik

Frank Morgan

Hugo Matuschek

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