Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Shop Around the Corner
EVERY GIRL OR FELLOW WHO EVER KEPT A “BLIND DATE”
Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime:
99
Released:
1940
Rating:
8.137
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Samson Raphaelson, Miklós László
FILM OVERVIEW
The Shop Around the Corner
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.
DIRECTOR
Ernst Lubitsch
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Ernst Lubitsch (Director)
Samson Raphaelson (Screenplay)
Miklós László (Theatre Play)
Wade B. Rubottom (Art Direction)
Arthur Rose (Unit Manager)
Gene Ruggiero (Editor)
Ernst Lubitsch (Producer)
Cedric Gibbons (Art Direction)
Wally Heglin (Orchestrator)
Edwin B. Willis (Set Decoration)
CAST MEMBERS
Margaret Sullavan
James Stewart
Frank Morgan
Joseph Schildkraut
Sara Haden
Felix Bressart
William Tracy
Inez Courtney
Sarah Edwards
Edwin Maxwell
MORE PRODUCTION
Horace Hough (Assistant Director), William H. Daniels (Director of Photography), Sydney Guilaroff (Hairstylist), Werner R. Heymann (Original Music Composer), Ben Hecht (Additional Writing), Mentor Huebner (Production Illustrator), Douglas Shearer (Sound Director)
MORE CAST
Charles Halton, Charles Smith, Charles Arnt, Joan Blair, Mary Carr, Mabel Colcord, Claire Du Brey, William Edmunds, Grace Hayle, Mira McKinney, Sol Murgi, Renie Riano, Gertrude Simpson, Ruth Warren
