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EVERY GIRL OR FELLOW WHO EVER KEPT A “BLIND DATE”

The Shop Around the Corner

8.11940 · 1h 39m · EN

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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.

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Margaret Sullavan

Klara Novak

James Stewart

Alfred Kralik

Frank Morgan

Hugo Matuschek

Joseph Schildkraut

Ferencz Vadas

Sara Haden

Flora

Felix Bressart

Pirovitch

William Tracy

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Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Status: Released
Audience votes: 865

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