a smart, funny script by Samson Raphaelson, The Shop Around the Corner is a romantic comedy in the finest sense of the term." Dave Kehr argued Lubitsch makes "brilliant deployment of point of view, allowing the audience to enter the perceptions of each character at exactly the right moment to develop maximum sympathy and suspense." It ranked 202nd in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made, having garnered eight critics' votes. The work was also 58th in BBC's 2015 poll of the best American films. Film historian David Thomson wrote: Adaptations The Shop Around the Corner was dramatized in two half-hour broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater, first on September 29, 1940, with Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, second on February 26, 1945, with Van Johnson and Phyllis Thaxter. It was also dramatized as a one-hour program on Lux Radio Theaters June 23, 1941 broadcast with Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche. Remakes The film spawned a musical remake, In the Good Old Summertime (1949), which stars Judy Garland and Van Johnson. The 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me was also inspired by the play and the film. The film You've Got Mail (1998), with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, revolves around two people who dislike each other while developing an anonymous romance by email correspondence. The film uses plot elements and dialogue lines similar to the 1940 film, especially during the first date. Screen credit of You've Got Mail is given to Miklós László for Parfumerie (the play on which the 1940 film is based), but in a nod to the earlier film, one of the protagonists of You've Got Mail owns a bookstore named "The Shop Around the Corner". The 1996 Indian Tamil-language romance film Kadhal Kottai directed by Agathiyan is an unofficial remake of The Shop Around the Corner. See also List of Christmas films References Notes Citations External links The Shop Around the Corner essay by Kevin Bahr at National Film Registry "Acting Ordinary in The Shop Around the Corner" Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Issue 1, 2010 "The Shop Around the Corner" essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 , pages 307-308 Streaming audio The Shop Around the Corner on Screen Guild Theater: September 29, 1940 The Shop Around the