Writer: Samson Raphaelson

Samson Raphaelson wrote nine films for Ernst Lubitsch including Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around the Corner, and wrote the play that became The Jazz Singer. He later taught writing at the University of Illinois.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) film posterSamson Raphaelson

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Two Budapest shop employees who can't stand each other are unknowingly falling in love through anonymous correspondence. The Shop Around the Corner is Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 American romantic comedy adapted from Miklós László's Hungarian play Parfumerie, depicting two Budapest leather-goods…

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