Sunday December 18th at 1:30 p.m. The Michigan Theatre hosted a free holiday movie event featuring the 1940 favorite, Shop Around the Corner. The movie featured the lovely Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, also the star of my personal favorite, It’s a Wonderful Life, which was played at The Michigan Theatre last weekend. The movie tells the story of two employees at a retail store around the holidays who can’t stand each other. They both fall in love with their secret anonymous pen pal, but eventually they find out they have been writing to each other all along. Have you ever seen You’ve Got Mail? Well, this is the original. Instead of meeting in a chat room and sending each other emails, they write good old fashioned love letters to one another. Instead of working in competing bookstores, they work in the same store.
Several of the scenes precisely reflected the modern-day version of the story starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, such as the coffee shop scene, where the man finds out for the first time that the woman he has been writing intimate letters to is the same woman he doesn’t get along with at the shop. They have a confrontation, making rude jabs and comments to each other, and he ends up leaving and disappointing her as she’s left to think that the man who wrote her the letters didn’t show up to meet her there, when really he just didn’t reveal his true identity to her.
Check out the coffee shop scene here, for both Shop Around the Corner and You’ve Got Mail–the juxtaposition of the two is really interesting and entertaining!
If you get the chance to watch some movies over the break, I would recommend giving Shop Around the Corner a try. It’s a really cute movie to watch over the holidays, and if you like romantic comedies, particularly You’ve Got Mail, you’re sure to enjoy it.
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