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12 January 1940 (USA)
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Plot:
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 synopsis
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1 win
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(2 articles)
Say Anything 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review
(From Collider.com. 18 November 2009, 8:27 PM, PST)
Soulpepper Theatre Presents Parfumerie 11/26-12/24
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 28 October 2009, 11:14 AM, PDT)
(From Collider.com. 18 November 2009, 8:27 PM, PST)
Soulpepper Theatre Presents Parfumerie 11/26-12/24
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 28 October 2009, 11:14 AM, PDT)
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A Christmas Delight
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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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99 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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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:U
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According to Bright Lights Film Journal website, When Kralik mentions "You read Zola's Madame Bovary," Klara immediately corrects him: "Madame Bovary is not by Zola," she snipes. The joke here is that though Klara knows who wrote Madame Bovary, she doesn't understand that she herself is living exclusively in Emma Bovary's world of impossible ideals.
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Continuity: When Klara is wrapping the wallet for her mystery boyfriend, Alfred comes into the room, and she stops to talk. However, when they both leave the room, she picks up the package and it's completely wrapped.
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Alfred Kralik:
[asking Pirovitch about cost of living for married couple] Suppose a fellow gets an apartment with three rooms. Dining room, bedroom, living room.
Pirovitch: What do you need three rooms for? You live in the bedroom.
Alfred Kralik: Where do you eat?
Pirovitch: In the kitchen. You get a nice big kitchen.
Alfred Kralik: Where do you entertain?
Pirovitch: Entertain? What are you, an embassador? Who do you want to entertain? Listen listen, if someone is really your friend, he comes after dinner.
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Pirovitch: What do you need three rooms for? You live in the bedroom.
Alfred Kralik: Where do you eat?
Pirovitch: In the kitchen. You get a nice big kitchen.
Alfred Kralik: Where do you entertain?
Pirovitch: Entertain? What are you, an embassador? Who do you want to entertain? Listen listen, if someone is really your friend, he comes after dinner.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Twice in a Lifetime: Matchmaker, Matchmaker (#2.3)" (2000)
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Soundtrack:
Ochi Tchornya (Dark Eyes)
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I have lost count of just how many times I have seen this movie - I probably know the entire dialog backwards - yet I am drawn to it time and again.
Set in Hungary, a young Jimmy Stewart plays the eligible bachelor "Kralik" who becomes the secret admirer of Margaret Sullavan's innocent "Klara". Kralik secretly becomes Klara's pen-friend, and at work together Klara confides in Kralik about the content of his (Kralik's) letters. Clearly Kralik is besotted with Klara - but is unable to make his feelings known whilst he is in competition with the "pen-friend". Confused? Well you wont be - this story has a sweet, almost sugary ending - but we all know it is the ending we all want.
Other characters worth mentioning are Frank Morgan playing his usual role, this time as the shop's owner "Hugo Matuschek", Felix Bressart as "Pirovitch", Kralik's confidant. Joseph Schildkraut as the womanising arrogant "Vadas" - so well played that you cannot help but hate him right from the beginning.
Finally William Tracy who manages to endear himself to us all with his over-confident upstart of a shop junior "Pepi Katona".
Recently re-made as "You've Got Mail" starring Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan for me is not as good as the original - although I suspect younger audiences would disagree.
If this film is on in your area over Christmas, I suggest you pour yourself a nice glass of wine, put a log on the fire and have a box of Kleenex handy.