The Shop Around the Corner (1940 Ernst Lubitsch)

Classic comedy romance from MGM featuring the great Felix Bressart, who had the distinction of acting in two of Lubitsch's other 40s classics Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be. A Jewish emigré from Nazi Germany via Austria, he died sadly young of leukemia at 57. Whilst we are used to him with moustache it's good to see him also without:

scr, Samson Raphaelson
Ph William Daniels

Note great Lubitsch moments such as Bressart avoiding boss - "I just want an honest opinion." It happens three times, like many gags, and in the third all we need to see is his foot appearing on a staircase, then disappearing!

Also when Pepi rushes in to Matuschek's office, all we're allowed to see is a light shattering from a bullet.

Above, Frank Morgan with William Tracy (as Pepi he has many scene stealing moments). Joseph Schildkraut is the super-oily salesman Vardas and the lovelorn couple are of course James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.