The Shop Around the Corner. Poster of the 1940 movie and cover of the 1937 book, Parfumerie
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Parfumerie
Miklós László, 1937
movie vs book
Ernst Lubitsch, 1940

Alfred Kralik is the top salesman at a leathergoods shop in Budapest owned by the high-strung Mr. Hugo Matuschek. One morning, Kralik reveals to his friend and coworker Pirovitch that he’s been corresponding anonymously with an intelligent and cultured woman whose ad he came across in the newspaper.


You've Got Mail. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1937 book, Parfumerie
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Parfumerie
Miklós László, 1937
movie vs book
Nora Ephron, 1998

Kathleen Kelly is in a relationship with Frank Navasky, a left-leaning newspaper writer for The New York Observer who is always in search of an opportunity to root for the underdog. Using the screen name Shopgirl, she reads an email from NY152, the screen name of Joe Fox, whom she first met in an over-30s chatroom.