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James Stewart (10 Favorite Movies)
Best Films of 1940 (30 movies items)"A classic I finally got to see. It is based on a play and it inspired "You've Got Mail". This movie is sweet and lovely yet still dull compared to "You've Got Mail". Stewart is his usual likable self but an average role for him."
100 Greatest Golden Age Hollywood Films (100 movies items)"Who fancies watching a Christmas film starring James Stewart? My, what an enthusiastic reaction! Did I mention it's not 'It's a Wonderful Life'? Wait, come back! 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) isn't the only great Christmas film starring Jimmy. There's also the lesser known 'The Shop Around the Corner', a cracking little romantic comedy/drama which became the inspiration for the 1998 Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan vehicle 'You've Got Mail'. Wait, come back! 'The Shop Around the Corner' is another fantastic"
Films that absolutely needed that remake. (10 movies items)"This film inexplicably stuck to the Hungarian location, surnames, and strange whatnot shop locale from the original material (a 1937 Hungarian play). It's a classic. But, even with James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan (she's a doll), the movie was ripe for a remake. The first effort, "In the Good Old Summertime" (Judy Garland), was not outstanding. But, 1998's You've Got Mail is just wonderful."
Small Businessman - Movies (32 movies items)"Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut and James Stewart Frank Morgan as Hugo Matuschek "
Felix Bressart Movies (23 person items)" Felix Bressart and Margaret Sullavan Felix Bressart and James Stewart "
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Ernst Lubitsch Favorite Movies (17 person items)" Frank Morgan and James Stewart Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart James Stewart, Felix Bressart and Joseph Schildkraut"
50 Great Movies That Were Not Nominated For Any Os (50 movies items)"It’s borderline unthinkable to imagine a romantic comedy up for Best Picture now, but in the 1930s and 1940s, it was relatively common for them to win, let alone be shortlisted. Which makes it all the more puzzling that Ernst Lubitsch’s “The Shop Around The Corner,” one of the most perfect examples of the genre, would be overlooked. Was it the film’s celebration of a storybook Europe soon after the outbreak of war there? Or just a film seen as being too frothy for Academy tastes?"
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