Parfumerie

Parfumerie

The most famous of all his plays during this time and which was later produced as a motion picture was Illatszertár, known in English as Parfumerie. It had premiered at the Pest Theatre in Budapest in 1937, and shortly after László came to New York. The play was adapted as a movie script by Samson Raphaelson and became the Ernst Lubitsch motion picture The Shop Around the Corner (1940), starring James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and Margaret Sullavan. A few years later it was re-filmed as In the Good Old Summertime (1949), a semi-musical showcase for Judy Garland, starring Garland, Van Johnson, and S. Z. Sakall.