I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch is a 1942 fantasy romantic comedy film, directed by Ren Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for revenge goes comically awry, with Fredric March as her foil. The film also features Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward and Cecil Kellaway. The screenplay by Robert Pirosh and Marc Connelly and uncredited other writers, including Dalton Trumbo, is based on the novel The Passionate Witch by Thorne Smith, who died before he could finish it it was completed by Norman H. Matson and published in 1941.

Centuries pass. Generation after generation, Wooley men all played by March marry cruel, shrewish women. Finally, in 1942, lightning splits the tree, freeing the spirits of Jennifer and Daniel. They discover Wallace Wooley March again, living nearby and running for governor, on the eve of marrying the ambitious and spoiled Estelle Masterson Susan Hayward, whose father Robert Warwick just happens to be Wooleys chief political backer.Initially, Jennifer and Daniel manifest themselves as white vertical smoky trails, occasionally hiding in empty or sometimes notsoempty bottles of alcohol. Jennifer persuades her father to create a human body for her so she can torment the latest Wooley. He needs a fire to perform the spell, so he burns down a building appropriately enough, the Pilgrim Hotel. This serves dual purposes, as Jennifer uses it to get the passing Wallace to rescue her from the flames. ........

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