Underplayed Gems

In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

In the Good Old Summertime poster
Directed by
Robert Z. Leonard, Buster Keaton
Genre
musical film, romantic comedy film, Christmas film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Three coworkers in a turn of the century Chicago music store unknowingly carry on a romantic correspondence by mail while bickering with each other in person. They are confused and delighted when they discover they have been writing to their workplace rival.

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What happens

In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It stars Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, and Buster Keaton in his first featured film role at MGM since 1933. The film is a musical adaptation of the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner, which was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan, and written by Miklós László, based on his 1937 play Parfumerie. For In the Good Old Summertime, the locale has been changed from 1930s Budapest to turn-of-the-century Chicago, but the plot remains the same. The plot was also revived in the 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me, and the 1998 film You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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