WATCHING THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) FOR THE FIRST TIME | movie reaction
Vložit
- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- This has been sitting on my laptop for a year and I've finally edited it together! Enjoy! :)
SOCIALS:
Goodreads: / dom-perry
Twitter: / dom_p_is_here
Instagram: / dom_has_photos
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com...
Gotta love the music playing in the cafe when the two meet for their "date." Same for the expression on Kralik's face when Klara calls him a little insignificant clerk.
~ Meg Ryan’s book store in You’ve Got Mail is named The Shop Around The Corner ~
One of my very favorite movies: so simple and clear and true. Ernst Lubitsch was the director, famous for being able to sneak around the restrictive Hayes Code to get some real sensual moments. But this movie was a special one to him, as it brought his family life back to his heart.
Vadas was played by theatrical great Joseph Schildkraut, who would play a very different man as Anne Frank's father, and heartwrenching roles in two Twilight Zone episodes, "Death's Head Revisited", and "The Trade-Ins". Already an accomplished stage actor when he arrived in Hollywood, he's the butt of a probably untrue story where he's introduced to a woman at a party who asks if he's an actor. Drawing himself up, he announces: "Madame, I am Joseph Schildkraut." "Oh, that's okay," she assures him. "You can change your name."
Steward and Margaret Sullavan acted together in a few movies. She was a talented but fragile and often uneven presence onscreen; her personal life was also uneven and she died at the age of 50.
Pirovitch was the sweet, lovely, reliable and wonderful supporting actor Felix Bressart, a Lubitsch regular - you can enjoy him also in "To Be Or Not To Be" and "Ninotchka", among other movies. Always a pleasure when he's onscreen.
Yes, yes, that was Frank Morgan, the Wizard himself. If you continue to watch older movies, you'll see him pop up all over the place. You played the little bit about the balloon and the blondes; I'm pretty sure that was a little easter egg, courtesy of the screenwriter.
The story, which has its roots in a play by Miklós László, has shown itself to be a popular one. In addition to "You've Got Mail", it was adapted into a musical, "In the Good Old Summertime", with Judy Garland, Van Johnson, and Buster Keaton, among others from the MGM stable of talent; and a stage musical, "She Loves Me". When I was growing up, the radio station WPAT used to play the title song from the musical very often, and I liked it a great deal. Many decades later, a revival of the play came to NYC and I went to see it, delighted to hear the song in context: czcams.com/video/HXXCQlKFj2A/video.html
Well Put‼️
@@raymeedc Thanks!
~ Felix Bressart from this film is also quite the character in Ninotchka, another cleverly fine Lubitsch directed RomCom you’d likely like👌
I watched this movie in a London cinema tonight. Lovely. I like how it has some dark edges, but is so human.
Frank Morgan was a fine actor and was a standout in every film he was in.
I love the ending of this movie. He made me feel all the emotions
~ James Stewart, my all time favorite actor in most all genres (excepting musicals) since I was growing up in the 50s/60s👌❣️
It's lovely! Perfect for Christmas. I love Jimmy Stewart.
If you want a musical version of this story watch, "In the Good Old Summertime".
"If I only had a haaht." Of course Frank Morgan was Professor Marvel/The Wizard in the Wizard of Oz. Morgan was from Nee York, while Jack Haley (the Tin Man), who sang the song, was from Boston. But, both their accents are non-rhotic, so they both don't pronounce the r in heart.
You could have saved time on the edits as this film is in the public domain. Also the film The Bishop's Wife, another popular Christmas film, is also in the public domain and needs no edits. Just in case you should decide to do that one, or already have and are working on it.
I've seen The Bishop's Wife a couple of times so I won't be doing a reaction, but it is a great movie! :)
My favorite Christmas movie. I love Margaret Sullavan’s throaty voice.
Can detect any rumblings of aggression and drumbeat to war? As the broadcaster presciently said. “Oh the humanity!”
One of my favourite movies! If you liked it, please consider Cluny Brown with Charles Boyer. It's also Lubitsch's and full of his humour.
A great film and another, like this one, is in the public domain and needs no edits. Also, sadly, it was the last of Lubitsch's. He was working on The Lady In Ermine but passed before it was finished. The late, Otto Preminger finished the film (and destroyed it).
Question what's that poster behind you
Breakfast Club, I believe 🙂
Yes it's The Breakfast Club! It's of the 5 leads and on the right is the letter that's read off at the end of the movie. The other one (in case that's the one you're referring to) is from Avatar the Last Airbender.
So I really don't like the concept and storyline behind you've got mail so any time I read a retelling with it I blame you've got mail but actually all along I should have been blaming this film instead?! 🤯 How did I not know enemies to lovers was your weakness trope as well D: I learned things in this video for sure.
Not you blaming things 😂😂 Princess Mononoke is one of my faves, you should've seen enemies to lovers coming!!
stop adding old movies to my list I don't even watch the modern ones!