Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
- salesclerk
- secret love
- lovesickness
- budapest
- hungary
- anonymous letter
- man woman relationship
- pen pals
- love
- black and white
- co-workers relationship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Margaret Sullavan
Klara Novak
James Stewart
Alfred Kralik
Frank Morgan
Hugo Matuschek
Joseph Schildkraut
Ferencz Vadas
- Sara Haden — Flora
- Felix Bressart — Pirovitch
- William Tracy — Pepi Katona
- Inez Courtney — Ilona
- Sarah Edwards — Woman Customer
- Edwin Maxwell — Doctor
- Charles Halton — Detective
- Charles Smith — Rudy
- Charles Arnt — Policeman (uncredited)
- Joan Blair — Customer (uncredited)
- Mary Carr — Grandmother (uncredited)
- Directed
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Written
- Samson Raphaelson
Production
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
