Screwball Sundays: The Shop Around The Corner

Join us for a rare screening of the screwball comedy cinema classic The Shop Around The Corner at the Palm Springs Cultural Center.

SCREWBALL SUNDAYS

April 5 - June 21

2PM Pre-Show | 3PM Film

Screwball comedies don’t just flirt with disorder—they weaponize it. Rapid-fire dialogue, mismatched lovers, social norms turned upside down, and women who refuse to behave “properly.” Screwball Sundays celebrates the genre at its most playful and subversive, pairing razor-sharp wit with big-hearted romance and impeccable comic timing.

Join us Sunday afternoons for six deliriously entertaining classics—each a reminder that love is often loud, illogical, and very funny. Each film screens on the BIG SCREEN in the Historic Camelot Theatre.

APR 19 | The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan

Film Intro: Matthew Kennedy

Set in a Budapest gift shop, this warm and witty romantic comedy pairs workplace rivalry with anonymous love letters. Lubitsch’s famously light touch turns everyday misunderstandings into emotional gold, while Stewart and Sullavan create a romance built on restraint, longing, and intelligence. A screwball classic with a tender heart and enduring charm.

MATTHEW KENNEDY is a Film historian and author and the former curator and host of the film series at the Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco. He is the author of Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes, Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, and On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide, and has written for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Turner Classic Movies, and the National Film Registry.