From the Soul Telegram: Movies & Meaning Archives… Gareth Higgins on CHRISTMAS MOVIES Toward the end of The Shop around the Corner (1942, above; caption credit to A Sharper Focus), Ernst Lubitsch’s almost overwhelmingly charming treatment of loss and love at Christmastime, two men have a brief conversation that I can’t stop thinking about, years after first seeing the movie. Mr. Matuschek, played by Frank Morgan - already perennially associated with Christmas for his role as the Wizard of Oz - discovers that new junior employee Rudy (Charles Smith) has nowhere to be on Christmas Eve except alone in his room. The evolving delight that strikes Mr. Matuschek as he realizes that he now has someone with whom to share a meal on this, as they say
18: Christmas Movies
18: Christmas Movies
18: Christmas Movies
From the Soul Telegram: Movies & Meaning Archives… Gareth Higgins on CHRISTMAS MOVIES Toward the end of The Shop around the Corner (1942, above; caption credit to A Sharper Focus), Ernst Lubitsch’s almost overwhelmingly charming treatment of loss and love at Christmastime, two men have a brief conversation that I can’t stop thinking about, years after first seeing the movie. Mr. Matuschek, played by Frank Morgan - already perennially associated with Christmas for his role as the Wizard of Oz - discovers that new junior employee Rudy (Charles Smith) has nowhere to be on Christmas Eve except alone in his room. The evolving delight that strikes Mr. Matuschek as he realizes that he now has someone with whom to share a meal on this, as they say