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"A delightful musical adaptation of The shop around the corner. Set in old Chicago, the film revolves around a serious misunderstanding of the heart between two employees at Oberkugen's music shop."@en
"Musical film adaptation of the play The Shop around the corner, about two employees of a Chicago music shop who fight but are really in love."@en
"In a Chicago music store in 1906, a salesgirl corresponds through a dating service with a man sho turns out to be the manager she detests."@en
"A delightful musical adaptation of The shop around the corner. Set in old Chicago, the film revolves around a serious misunderstanding of the heart between two employees at Oberkugen's music shop."@en
"Musical remake of 'Shop around the corner' involving two feuding store employees who are unknowingly engaged in a romantic relationship as anonymous pen pals."@en
""A tale of squabbling music-shop clerks who don't know they're romantic pen pals."--Container."@en
"Musical remake of Shop Around the Corner involving two feuding store employees who are unknowingly engaged in a romantic relationship as anonymous pen pals."
"In this musical remake of Lubitsch's 'The Shop Around the Corner', the location was shifted from Budapest to Chicago and the period moved back to 1906. Garland plays a shop assistant in a music store who detests her bossy work colleague, unaware that he is the lonelyhearts pen pal with whom she has been exchanging love letters. Buster Keaton made his last appearance for MGM in this film as the shop owner's bumbling nephew, while Liza Minnelli made her first screen appearance at 18 months of age in a cameo in the final scene. Songs include 'Meet Me in Dreamland', 'I Don't Care', 'Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie' and the title song."@en
""On a spring day in Chicago, at the turn of the twentieth century, Andrew Delby Larkin, a salesman at Otto Oberkugen's music shop, eagerly rushes to the post office in the hope of finding a letter from his secret pen pal, whom he knows only as 'Box Number 237.' To Andrew's delight, a letter awaits him, and he proudly reads it to his friend and co-worker, Rudy Hansen. By a strange coincidence, Veronica Fisher, who is Box Number 237, enters Oberkugen's shop that day looking for work, unaware that Andrew is her pen pal. Veronica is met with Andrew's condescending disinterest, as he, too, is unaware that his secret pen pal is in his presence. Mr. Oberkugen at first refuses to hire Veronica, but he eventually offers her a sales position when she cleverly persuades a customer to buy one of his pet instruments, an expensive Amboy harp. Veronica's early success at salesmanship proves to a fluke, however, and sales at the store begin to slide. So, too, does her professional relationship with Andrew, who has become increasingly hostile towards her. On the day that Veronica and Andrew are to meet their respective pen pals, the two arrive at work in high spirits, but their mood quickly changes as they become embroiled in a petty dispute. Furthermore, Oberkugen, who is upset at having been spurned by his sweetheart, employee Nellie Burke, angers both Veronica and Andrew when he orders the entire staff to remain after hours to take a store inventory. Oberkugen eventually has a change of heart, though, and lets his employees out just in time for Andrew and Veronica to rush to their pen pals. When Andrew peers into the restaurant where he is to meet his secret pen pal, he is shocked to discover that his pen pal is Veronica. Bewildered and embarrassed, Andrew runs away before Veronica sees him, and instead goes to a recital by Louise Parkson, one of the residents at the boardinghouse where he lives. Although Andrew eventually changes his mind and returns to the restaurant, he does not reveal to Veronica that he is the person she has been waiting to meet. Instead, he makes a clumsy attempt to win Veronica's affection by flirting with her. This leads to an argument and ends with Veronica leaving the restaurant thinking that her secret pen pal decided not to approach her after having seen her. Devastated by the apparent rejection, Veronica becomes reclusive and refuses to leave her home. Guilt-ridden about what has happened, Andrew asks Veronica to accompany him to Otto and Nellie's engagement party, and she accepts. Later, when Otto learns that Andrew has loaned his prized Stradivarius violin to Louise for her big recital, he fires him. The decision is eventually reversed, though, when Otto realizes that Andrew acted out of kindness, and he is offered his job back with a raise. Having finally secured the pay raise he felt he needed to marry his sweetheart, on Christmas Eve, Andrew reveals to Veronica that he is her secret pen pal. They kiss, and she consents to marry him"--AFI catalog, 1941-1950."@en
"It's turn of the century America, in the musical version of "The shop around the corner", when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies when, later on, Andrew is forced to hire Veronica as a saleslady at Oberkugen's music store. What the two don't know is that while they may argue and fight constantly throughout the day, they are actually engaged in an innocent, romantic and completely anonymous relationship by night, through the post office."