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12 January 1940 (USA) morePlot:
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they're falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
1 win moreNewsDesk:
Soulpepper Theatre Presents Parfumerie 11/26-12/24(From BroadwayWorld.com. 28 October 2009, 11:14 AM, PDT)
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It's a wonderful world. more (99 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast)| 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 Novotny | |
| Sarah Edwards | ... | Woman Customer | |
| Edwin Maxwell | ... | Doctor | |
| Charles Halton | ... | Detective | |
| Charles Smith | ... | Rudy |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
99 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #5967) | Canada:G (video rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:UFun Stuff
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The play, "Perfumerie" (also known as "Illatszertár"), was copyrighted 10 November 1936. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Klara hurries out of the back room with her hat and coat she rushes past the rest of the employees as they enter the room in a group. Flora is the second-to-last person in the line and she is clearly inside the room before Klara runs past. In the next cut showing Klara hurrying through the store, Flora is the last person in line and is still in the doorway. moreQuotes:
Alfred Kralik: Now if I were a girl and had to choose between a young good-for-nothing with plenty of hair and a good, solid, mature citizen, I'd pick Mathias Popkin every time. moreSoundtrack:
Ochi Tchornya (Dark Eyes) moreFAQ
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The Stewart /Sullavan relationship and the warmth which flows on the screen are only one bend in a most extraordinary river.Although "extraordinary" is not the right word,because everything here is ordinary,no hero,no spectacular events and however,something happens.
The shop is a life microcosm,with its little quiet joys and its bitter disappointments,but,Lubitsch,here very close to Capra ,proves that virtuous gents like Stewart character can triumph in the end;and the final scene of the lovers is one of the wittier in the whole cinema.We seem to know all the clerks in the shop as if we've known them for years,and their everyday life is depicted with love and affection.The yuletide spirit is captured with a lot of emotion-check the scene between the boss and his new delivery boy Rudi and predates "it's a wonderful life" by five years.
The main topic is the fear of solitude.The shop is the place where everyone can feel he is part of a family,a family sometimes truer than the real one (see the boss's wife).And the director wants to make sure that ,when they leave their work on Xmas night,everyone is not on his own.A masterful conclusion.
The remake "you've got mail" featuring Ryan and Hanks is politically correct to a fault.All Lubitsch's movie charm and poetry seem to have been swallowed by the computers.