Walter Pidgeon, who was part of the triangle in "The Shopworn Angel" later recalled: "I really felt like the odd-man-out in that one. It was really all Jimmy and Maggie ... It was so obvious he was in love with her. He came absolutely alive in his scenes with her, playing with a conviction and a sincerity I never knew him to summon away from her." Eventually the duo made four movies together between 1936 and 1940 ("Next Time We Love", "The Shopworn Angel", "The Shop Around the Corner", and "The Mortal Storm").