
The Shop Around the Corner(1940)
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.


“Fall in love.”
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

Judy Garland
Veronica Fisher

Van Johnson
Andrew Delby Larkin

S.Z. Sakall
Otto Oberkugen

Spring Byington
Nellie Burke

Clinton Sundberg
Rudy Hansen

Buster Keaton
Hickey

Marcia Van Dyke
Louise Parkson

Lillian Bronson
Aunt Addie
John Alban
Audience Member (uncredited)
Bette Arlen
Girl (uncredited)
In the Good Old Summertime is a comedy, music, romance film released in 1949 exploring themes of anonymous letter, musical, romcom, pen pals, music store, parfumerie. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, it stars Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall. Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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