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History

Inspiration


She Loves Me is the third adaptation of the play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo. The first adaptation was the 1940 James Stewart/Margaret Sullavan film The Shop around the Corner and the 1949 Judy Garland/Van Johnson musical film In the Good Old Summertime. The play was later adapted to film once more as the Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks feature You've Got Mail.

The producer, Lawrence Kasha, initiated the idea for the musical and brought the Pulitzer Prize winning songwriting team of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock together with playwright Joe Masteroff.