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Lynn Purl <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:49:37 -0700
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Just wanted to add that the song is used most memorably in Lubitsch's
_The Shop around the Corner_. The musical cigarette boxes that play it
are supposedly so annoying that no one will buy them. I never
understood that, as I think it's a marvelous tune, and I found the
boxes rather charming. But then, I guess that's the point. As with the
cigarette boxes, the romantic and sexual heat between James Stewart
and Margaret Sullavan is subverted by their outward annoyance with
each other and inability to see the attraction.

Lynn

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