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In The Shop Around the Corner (1940)The Shop Around the Corner (1940), two characters bicker in person while falling in love anonymously through letters. The plot has been repeated in In the Good Old Summertime (1949)In the Good Old Summertime (1949), You've Got Mail (1998)You've Got Mail (1998) and slightly modified in Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge (2011)Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge (2011). In other words, it's a pretty popular and successful scenario for a romcom. Did the writers of The Shop Around the Corner create the plot or is it taken from another source? I'd be interested in a history in drama as well as cinema.

In The Shop Around the Corner (1940), two characters bicker in person while falling in love anonymously through letters. The plot has been repeated in In the Good Old Summertime (1949), You've Got Mail (1998) and slightly modified in Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge (2011). In other words, it's a pretty popular and successful scenario for a romcom. Did the writers of The Shop Around the Corner create the plot or is it taken from another source? I'd be interested in a history in drama as well as cinema.

In The Shop Around the Corner (1940), two characters bicker in person while falling in love anonymously through letters. The plot has been repeated in In the Good Old Summertime (1949), You've Got Mail (1998) and slightly modified in Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge (2011). In other words, it's a pretty popular and successful scenario for a romcom. Did the writers of The Shop Around the Corner create the plot or is it taken from another source? I'd be interested in a history in drama as well as cinema.

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What was the first appearance of the "Shop Around the Corner" romcom plot?

In The Shop Around the Corner (1940), two characters bicker in person while falling in love anonymously through letters. The plot has been repeated in In the Good Old Summertime (1949), You've Got Mail (1998) and slightly modified in Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge (2011). In other words, it's a pretty popular and successful scenario for a romcom. Did the writers of The Shop Around the Corner create the plot or is it taken from another source? I'd be interested in a history in drama as well as cinema.