Vintage Screen

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Unrequited affection
Swanson and Holden
Sunset Blvd '50

"The Shop Around the Corner"...1940
Produced and Directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch
Starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Frank Morgan...with a stellar supporting cast. It has become holiday 

favorite or in any season for that matter... wonderful from start to finish made more believable by Jimmy Stewart's real life infatuation with Margaret Sullavan...