I Married a Witch (1942)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

René Clair

Writers:

Thorne Smith (story)
Norman Matson (story)

Release Date:

30 October 1942 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Romance

Tagline:

She's a witch (and we do mean witch) who gets what she wants with hex appeal!

Plot:

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Plot Keywords:

Witch | Wedding | Puritan | Potion | Hospital

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Fredric March	...	Jonathan Wooley / Nathaniel Wooley / Samuel Wooley / Wallace Wooley
Veronica Lake	...	Jennifer
Robert Benchley	...	Dr. Dudley White
Susan Hayward	...	Estelle Masterson
Cecil Kellaway	...	Daniel
Elizabeth Patterson	...	Margaret
Robert Warwick	...	J.B. Masterson

Runtime:

77 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (re-rating) (2006) | West Germany:16 (nf) | Germany:6 (re-rating) | Finland:S | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #8351) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Company:

Rene Clair Productions

Trivia:

Dalton Trumbo was a contributing writer, but left because his interpretation of the novel differed from producer Preston Sturges. Sturges also left the production (and declined onscreen credit) because of artistic differences with director René Clair

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The film opens with a scene of Puritans in the Massachusetts colony burning witches. No-one was ever burned for witchcraft in America. The accused witches of Salem, Massachusetts, and its environs were hanged, with the exception of Giles Corey, who was pressed to death with rocks.

Quotes:

Wooley - civil war incarnation: Where is the nearest recruiting office?
His wife: Oh, running off to war like a coward.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Monsterama Sci-Fi Late Night Creature Feature Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V)

Soundtrack:

The Battle Cry of Freedom

Wonderful Magical

I love this movie! It's mystically enchanting and irresistably charming. It's probably the greatest movie which Veronica Lake ever did, and probably one of the best classics to come out of the heyday of Hollywood.As captivating as Marilyn Monroe was to become,Lake is wonderfully demure and waif-like in her appearance, and Fredric March shows great range between befuddled and charmed by lake as she enraptures him. The movie's appeal lives on in the romances of Bewitched and Dark shadows !