History Film / TheShopAroundTheCorner

* InsistentTerminology: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]:
-->'''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?

The ''other'' Creator/JimmyStewart Christmas movie--and it's every bit as good as [[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife the one you're thinking about]].

* RealityEnsues: Miss Novak eventually tells Kralik that she had a crush on him from the start and was rude to him because she'd been reading a book where a glamorous French stage actress made herself irresistible to admiring men by treating them like dogs--but that only worked because she was a glamorous French stage actress rather than a shop clerk.

* ObviousJudas: Mr. Vadas, who's a sleazebag even before it's revealed that he's having an affair with the boss's wife.

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The ''other'' Creator/JamesStewart Christmas movie--and it's every bit as good as [[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife the one you're thinking about]].

A classic 1940 RomanticComedy from legendary director Creator/ErnstLubitsch, starring Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as bickering co-workers in a leather goods store who are also ([[ObliviousToLove unbeknownst to them]]) pen pals in love. Set in Budapest, Hungary, since it was based on the play ''Parfumerie'' by Hungarian author Miklós László.

Remade in 1949 as ''In The Good Old Summertime'', a {{Musical}} version starring Creator/JudyGarland and set in Chicago in TheGayNineties. Adapted as TheMusical ''Theatre/SheLovesMe'' on Broadway in 1963. Remade again in 1998 as ''Film/YouveGotMail'' with Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan, with newfangled technology like ''email'' and ''instant messaging''.

* CatharsisFactor: After everything he's done, watching Vadas get thrown out on his ass by Kralik is incredibly satisfying.

* GoldDigger: Mr. Vadas, who is bleeding Mrs. Matuschek (and thus her husband) for money and favors.

* TheThirties: Technically from 1940, but the feeling is much more Depression-era '30s than WWII-era '40s: Matuschek worries about money, Miss Novak desperately needs a job, and Kralik is less than overjoyed by the prospect of having to look for another one.
When they have the best sales day in years Matuschek remarks that it was the best since '28.[[note]]Plus, of course, no Nazis in sight.[[/note]] (The play on which it was based premiered in 1937.)

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

* FourthDateMarriage: Back then it didn't seem hard to imagine becoming engaged over the weekend to a man you have never even met face-to-face.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Mrs. Matuschek.

* LivingWithTheVillain
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: The two leads fall in love through written letters.

* MarriedToTheJob: Mr. Matuschek.

* ObviousJudas: Mr. Vadas, who's a sleezebag even before it's revealed that he's having an affair with the boss's wife.

* SayMyName: How many times was the name Matuschek uttered in the film?

* TheThirties: Technically from 1940, but the feeling is much more Depression-era '30s than WWII-era '40s: Matuschek worries about money, Miss Novak desperately needs a job, and Kralik is less than overjoyed by the prospect of having to look for another one.[[note]]Plus, of course, no Nazis in sight.[[/note]] (The play on which it was based premiered in 1937.)

* TheThirties: Technically from 1940, but the feeling is much more Depression-era '30s than WWII-era '40s: Matuschek worries about money, Miss Novak desperately needs a job, and Kralik is less than overjoyed by the prospect of having to look for another one. (The play on which it was based premiered in 1937.)

* StoodUp: Kralik didn't intend to stand Miss Novak up--but he loses his job. And then she's particularly cruel to him at the restaurant after he comes in and sits at her table. So he goes home without revealing himself. Miss Novak takes being Stood Up very badly.

* AcquaintedInRealLife: A key example of this trope. The two leads are courting one another anonymously as pen pals while competing and fighting in real life, until one day the secret is revealed.

%% Tsundere is on this page as HotAndCold %%

* HotAndCold: Miss Novak to Kralik. One of the most well known early examples 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]].

* InternalReveal: When Miss Novak finally finds out who her Dear Friend is.

The ''other'' Creator/JimmyStewart Christmas movie--and it's every bit as good as [[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife the one you're thinking about]].

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

* TranslationConvention: They live in Hungary, after all. [[note]]What language they were meant to actually speak is a trickier question than it may look at a first glance. Judging by their surnames, Matuschek, Kralik and Novak are Slovaks (or, less probably, Czechs), not Hungarians. It's possible that they spoke Slovak or Czech between themselves, but Hungarian (or even German, at the time popular among upper classes of Budapest and something of lingua franca for the region) with the other staff and the customers. [[/note]]

* TranslationConvention: They live in Hungary, after all. [[note]]What language they were meant to actually speak is a trickier question than it may look at a first glance. Judging by their surnames, Matuschek, Kralik and Novak are Slovaks (or, less probably, Czechs), not Hungarians. It's possible that they spoke Slovak or Czech between themselves, but Hungarian (or even German, still popular among upper classes of Budapest and something of lingua franca for the region at the time) with the other staff and the customers. [[/note]]

* FoodPorn: When Mr, Matuschek invites errand boy Rudy to share Christmas dinner with him:

* TranslationConvention: They live in Hungary, after all. [[note]]What language they were meant to actually speak is a trickier question than it may look at a first glance. Judging by their surnames, Matuscherk, Kralik and Novak are Slovaks (or, less probably, Czechs), not Hungarians. It's possible that they spoke Slovak or Czech between themselves, but Hungarian (or even German, still popular among upper classes of Budapest and something of lingua franca for the region at the time) with the other staff and the customers. [[/note]]

* TranslationConvention: They live in Hungary, after all. [[note]]What language they were meant to actually speak is a trickier question than it may look at a first glance. Judging by their surnames, almost all of the people in the shop are Slovaks (or, less probably, Czechs), not Hungarians. It's possible that they spoke Slovak or Czech between themselves, but Hungarian (or even German, still popular among upper classes of Budapest at the time) with their customers.[[/note]]

* TranslationConvention: They live in Hungary, after all. [[note]]What language they were meant to actually speak is a trickier question than it may look at a first glance. Judging by their surnames, almost all of the people in the shop are Slovaks (or, less probably, Czechs), not Hungarians. It's possible that they spoke Slovak or Czech between themselves, but Hungarian (or even German, still popular among upper middle classes of Budapest at the time) with their customers.[[/note]]