a warm and sweet and remarkably charm film about two antagonistic worker in the same shop ( james stewart and margaret sullavan ) who be carry on a romance via mailbox without either of them know it . the key to this film success be that ernst lubitsch keep any syrupy sentimentality absent and call on his actor to give low key and unfussy performance . a a result and you fall in love with virtually all of them . there a strong undercurrent of melancholy run through this film which i appreciate . loneliness be a major theme and most obviously represent in the character of the shop owner and manager and play wonderfully by frank morgan . he discover that he be cuckold by his wife and and realize that the successful life he create for himself isn not enough to keep him from feel lonely when he doesn not have a partner to share it . this make the timid romance between stewart and sullavan all the more poignant and because theyre both reach out to this unseen other and who each think of a a soulmate before they have even meet . of course we know everything will turn out right in the end and but the movie doesn not let you forget the dismal feeling either of them would feel if they find that the reality do not live up to the fantasy . lubitsch fill his movie out with a crackerjack cast that have boatload of chemistry . the little group of shop employee refers to itself throughout the movie a a little family and and that exactly how it feel to u as well . this be a wonderful and unsung romance . grade represent a plus .