Welcome to "Saturday Night at the Movies." I'm your host, Glenn Holland. This week's film is "The Shop Around the Corner," directed by Ernst Lubitsch for MGM Studios and released in 1940. "The Shop ...

Even after a coroner’s verdict of accidental death, show business gossip ran on. The overdose of barbiturates that killed Actress Margaret Sullavan (TIME, Jan. 11) fitted too neatly into a pattern of ...

Director William Wyler strays into Lubitsch territory early in his Hollywood career with this 1935 adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s farce about a naive young woman who wreaks havoc with her good deeds.

Robert Stevenson directed this 1941 Universal adaptation of the Fanny Hurst novel about a shopgirl (Margaret Sullavan) who becomes the mistress of a banker (Charles Boyer). With Richard Carlson. 89 ...

If Margaret Sullavan Universal’s leading lady player does not make a mark for herself in her next picture she has no one to blame but Margaret Sullavan. In “Little Man What Now” she was bogged down by ...

Although plenty of Hollywood films have trod this same ground in the decades since, The Mortal Storm (1940) was one of the earliest to examine how a society can be swept off their feet by a fascist ...

Tom Brown’s School Days (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon; TIME, July 8). The Mortal Storm (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Irene Rich, Maria ...