In the Good Old Summertime

There are plenty of excuses for lots of catchy tunes as music store buddies Van Johnson and Judy Garland bicker and fall in love in this MGM musical., In this musical, Van Johnson and Judy Garland play two clerks in a sheet-music store who detest each other on sight. Both reserve their words of affection for their respective pen pals, whom they’ve never met. However, it turns out that Johnson is Garland’s pen pal, and she his., Two clerks in a turn-of-the-20th-century Chicago sheet-music store are intensely antagonistic toward each other, but unbeknownst to the two, they actually are getting very chummy as pen pals. A musical remake of “The Shop Around the Corner,” in which the setting was changed from a Budapest sundries shop., Andrew and Veronica meet by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies later on., A romance blossoms between pen-pals, even though the two never meet. They actively dislike each other at work, unaware that they are ardently writing to each other at night.