In The Good Old Summertime

Robert Z. Leonard directed the 1949 American Technicolor musical film In the Good Old Summertime. Judy Garland, Van Johnson, and S.Z. Sakall star. The film is a musical remake of Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner, which starred James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan and was scripted by Miklós László, based on his 1937 play Parfumerie. The setting has been altered from 1930s Budapest to turn-of-the-century Chicago in In the Good Old Summertime, but the storyline remains the same. The concept was also reprised in Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's 1998 film You've Got Mail.

Garland was linked to MGM for the majority of her career, and another Technicolor musical from that era paired her with Van Johnson for 1949's In the Good Old Summertime. The general story of the film is also best known as being based on The Shop Around the Corner and the half-century-later film, You've Got Mail. Garland and Johnson have adequate chemistry together, even though the fact that she is the clear star of Veronica Fisher. Notably, Liza Minnelli, Garland's three-year-old daughter, made her cinematic debut in this picture.

Detailed information:

Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard

Release date: July 29, 1949

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041507