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"A romantic comedy set in a Budapest shop. The new floorwalker and a young saleswoman who dislikes him find they are pen pals through a lonely hearts column. (Does not circulate)."
"The setting is pre-World War II Europe. Quiet, unassuming Kralik (James Stewart) works long hours in a small gift shop owned by demanding Matuschek (Frank Morgan.)."@en
"A romantic comedy set in a pre-World War II Budapest shop. The new floorwalker and a young saleswoman who dislikes him find they are pen pals through a lonely hearts column."
"Two co-workers in a Budapest store who dislike each other discover that they have been pen pals for some time."@en
"Dans une modeste maroquinerie hongroise, le chef vendeur Kralik correspond anonymement avec la petite vendeuse Klara. Il découvre l'identité de sa chère inconnue. Ils s'aimeront."
"A gentle, ironic romantic comedy in which the salesgirl and the head clerk of a Budapest leather goods and novelty shop are continually at odds with each other. They are unaware that each is the other's 'lonely hearts' correspondent. A good deal of care was taken in creating the milieu in the studio but the theme is universal - the shop could equally be in Middletown, USA. The most naturalistic of Lubitsch's films marked the beginning of the last phase of his career. The setting's independence from the characters is much stronger than in the earlier films where setting has little meaning apart from the characters."@en
"Tell bickering Bucharest gift-shop workers, Alfred and Klara that they love each other and they might call you crazy. No lovers can compare to the romantic, secret pen pals each knows only as Dear Friend. What Alfred and Klara don't know, of course, is that they are each other's Dear Friend. DVD."
"Bickering store clerks have no idea they are secret penpals."
"A romantic comedy set in pre-World War II Europe in which a quiet man corresponds with an anonymous pen pal whose identity only becomes clear after he is inexplicably fired from his job in a small gift shop."
"Feuding clerks in a small shop find love in a lonely hearts club. Adapted from the Nikolaus Laszio play Parfumerie. On the National Film Registry."
"The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals."@en
"The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals."
"Quiet, unassuming Kralik is fired from his job in a gift shop, when his boss falsely believes that he is having an affair with the boss's wife. Out of work and lonely, Kralik finds out that the girl of his dreams is actually the girl who works in the shop."
"Quiet, unassuming Kralik is fired from his job in a gift shop, when his boss falsely believes that he is having an affair with the boss's wife. Out of work and lonely, Kralik finds out that the girl of his dreams is actually the girl who works in the shop."@en
""At the Budapest shop Matuschek and Company, work Pepi Katona, the snippy errand boy, Pirovitch, the mild-mannered clerk, Alfred Kralik, the bashful yet lovestruck head clerk, the duplicitious Ferencz Vadas, and clerks Ilona and Flora. Each morning, the six line up in front of the shop to await the arrival of their boss, Hugo Matuschek, and while waiting one day, Alfred confides to his friend Pirovitch that he has answered a blind personal ad in the newspaper and has entered into a romance through the post. That morning, Klara Novak enters the shop, looking for a job, and although Alfred turns her down, Matuschek decides to hire the girl when she talks a customer into buying a cigarette box that plays Otchi tchorniye, an item which Matuschek loves, but Alfred hates. At work, Klara and Alfred argue incessently, never suspecting that they are carrying on a tender romance through the mail, as Klara is Alfred's secret correspondent. Through their anonymously signed letters, the lovers agree to meet for the first time at a cafe, but that night, Matuschek, thinking that Alfred is the man a private detective agency reports is having an affair with his wife, fires the clerk. Later, when the detective that Matuschek has hired informs him that his wife is actually having an affair with Vadas, he despairs and tries to end his life, but is saved by Pepi. Meanwhile, Alfred arrives at his rendezvous and is astonished to discover that his secret love is Klara. He approaches her as a co-worker and does not divulge his secret identity, and when she berates him, he leaves. Later that night, Alfred is summoned to the hospital bed of the ailing Matuschek who appoints him store manager and begs him for forgiveness. After firing Vadas, Alfred rallies the store employees, and on Christmas Eve, Matuschek returns to a happy reunion of his employee family in the shop. Once everyone else has departed, Klara confides to Alfred that she finds him attractive, and he finally reveals himself as her secret lover"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en