History Film / TheShopAroundTheCorner

* JerkAss: Pepi.

* MeanBoss: Mr. Matuschek crosses into this a little bit through much of the movie, although he undergoes something of a HeelFaceTurn after surviving his suicide attempt.

* TrueCompanions: Mr. Matuschek says that Kralik is like a son to him. Also, he takes the new delivery boy home for Christmas Eve dinner after discovering that both of them are spending the holiday alone.

* BillingDisplacement: Margaret Sullavan gets top billing over Creator/JimmyStewart.

* BillingDisplacement: Margaret Sullavan gets top billing over JimmyStewart who had been in several hit movies prior to this one.
** In the 30s, Sullavan was seen as an older established star and Stewart was the up and coming actor. Stewart had yet to become the icon he would be in the postwar era.

* BillingDisplacement: In the closing credits Margaret Sullavan gets top billing over JimmyStewart who had been in several hit movies prior to this one.
** In the 30s, Sullavan was seen as an older established star and Stewart was the up and coming actor. Stewart had yet to become the icon he would be after ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''.

-->'''Doctor:''' It appears to be an acute epileptoid manifestation and a pan phobic melancholiac with indication of a neurasthenia cords.
-->'''Pepi:''' Is that more expensive than a nervous breakdown?

-->'''Doctor''': It appears to be an acute epileptoid manifestation and a pan phobic melancholiac with indication of a neurasthenia cordus.

* TheThirties: Technically from 1940, but the feeling is much more Depression-era 30s than WWII era 40s.

1940 RomanticComedy from legendary director Creator/ErnstLubitsch, starring JamesStewart and Margaret Sullivan as bickering co-workers who are ([[ObliviousToLove unbeknown to them]]) pen pals in love. Set in Budapest, Hungary, since it was based on the play ''Parfumerie'' by Hungarian author Miklós László.

* MeanBoss: Mr. Matuschek crosses into this a little bit through much of the movie, although he undergoes a bit of a HeelFaceTurn after surviving his suicide attempt.

RomanticComedy from legendary director Creator/ErnstLubitsch, starring JamesStewart and Margaret Sullivan as bickering co-workers who are ([[ObliviousToLove unbeknown to them]]) pen pals in love. Set in Budapest, Hungary, since it was based on the play ''Parfumerie'' by Hungarian author Miklós László.

* MeanBoss: Mr. Matuschek kind of crosses into this a little bit through much of the movie, although he undergoes a bit of a HeelFaceTurn after [[spoiler:surviving his suicide attempt.]]

Remade in 1949 as ''In The Good Old Summertime'', a {{Musical}} version starring JudyGarland and set in Chicago in TheGayNineties. Adapted as TheMusical ''SheLovesMe'' on Broadway in 1963. Remade again in 1998 as ''[[YouveGotMail You've Got Mail]]'' with TomHanks and MegRyan, with that newfangled technology like ''email'' and ''instant messaging''.

RomanticComedy from legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, starring JamesStewart and Margaret Sullivan as bickering co-workers who are ([[ObliviousToLove unbeknown to them]]) pen pals in love. Set in Budapest, Hungary, since it was based on the play ''Parfumerie'' by Hungarian author Miklós László.

* FakeNationality: The Hungarian characters are played by American, Austrian and German actors.

-->'''Pepi:''' I'm a contact man. I keep contact between Matuschek & Co and the customers - on a bicycle.
-->'''Doctor:''' You mean an errand boy.
-->'''Pepi:''' Doctor - did I call you a pill-peddler?

* MarriedToTheJob: Mr. Matuschek

* SmugSnake: Vadas

-->'''Doctor'': It appears to be an acute epileptoid manifestation and a pan phobic melancholiac with indication of a neurasthenia cordus.

Romantic comedy from legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, starring JamesStewart and Margaret Sullivan as bickering co-workers who are ([[ObliviousToLove unbeknown to them]]) pen pals in love. Set in Budapest, Hungary, since it was based on the play ''Parfumerie'' by Hungarian author Miklós László.

* RomanticComedy

Remade in 1948 as ''In The Good Old Summertime'' with Judy Garland, but set in TheGayNineties. Adapted as TheMusical ''SheLovesMe'' on Broadway in 1963. Remade again in 1998 as ''[[YouveGotMail You've Got Mail]]'' with TomHanks and MegRyan, with that newfangled technology like ''email'' and ''instant messaging''.

* SternBoss: Mr. Matuschek.

* HotAndCold: Klara to Alfred. One of the most well known early examples of {{Tsundere}} in fiction (Type 2 to be exact), [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when she said she read a book that tells her that if you [[KickTheDog treat a man like a dog]] he'll be eating out of your hand but all he did [[TheDogBitesBack was return the favor]].

* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Subverted. Kralik pretends that he met Miss Novak's "Dear Friend," and ''insults him.'' before TheReveal. [[spoiler:She admits then she'd long hoped it would be him.]]

* HiddenDepths

* InternalReveal
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Mr. Matuschek with a gun (interrupted by Pepi) when he finds out his wife has been [[MistakenForCheating cheating on him with Mr. Vadas instead of Mr. Kralik (as he originally suspected)]]; his attempt is, arguably, out of guilt of false accusation and firing of his best employee more than the infidelity itself.]]

* MistakenForCheating: Inverted; Mr. Matuschek knows that his wife is cheating with one of his employees and comes to the conclusion that it is Mr. Kralik. [[spoiler:It's really Mr. Vadas.]]

* TrueCompanions: Mr. Matuschek says that Kralik is like a son to him. Also, he takes the new delivery boy to a ritzy restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner after discovering that both of them are spending the holiday alone.

* TrueCompanions: Mr. Matuschek says that Kralik is like a son to him. Also, he takes the new delivery boy home for Christmas Eve dinner after discovering that both of them are spending the holiday alone.