The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 98% of the 236 1940s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes99%
Metacritic96/100
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
868 audience votes
Key crew
- Ernst LubitschDirector
- Samson RaphaelsonScreenplay
- Werner R. HeymannOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Margaret SullavanKlara Novak
- James StewartAlfred Kralik
- Frank MorganHugo Matuschek
- Joseph SchildkrautFerencz Vadas
- Sara HadenFlora
- Felix BressartPirovitch
- William TracyPepi Katona
- Inez CourtneyIlona
- Sarah EdwardsWoman Customer
- Edwin MaxwellDoctor
- Charles HaltonDetective
- Charles SmithRudy
Stills
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Themes
salesclerksecret lovelovesicknessbudapest, hungaryanonymous letterman woman relationshippen palsloveblack and whiteco-workers relationshipmusic boxbickering
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