I Married a Witch

Trailer—I Married a Witch

The great René Clair's whimsical fantasy featuring the unlikely pairing of Fredric March & Veronica Lake. Lake is a 200 year old witch who returns to wreak havoc on the relative of her persecutors. March is the relative & he gets a real run for his money from the troublesome Lake. The film has become a classic and rightly so. It's very funny, very different for a 1942 Hollywood film and the performances are absolutely perfect. Lake in particular is a real surprise and the great supporting cast includes Cecil Kellaway and Robert Benchley. Susan Hayward is hilarious as March's bitchy fiancé. The cinematography is by Ted Tetzlaff.

Trust a Frenchman to make the perfect romantic comedy / date flick. And simply the perfect movie. This was my first Veronica Lake movie, and I was very curious what a comedy from the weighty réalisateur of existentialist classics such as Porte de Lilas would look like. And I was positively surprised in every aspect. "I Married A Witch" is just about one of the best movies I have ever seen. The movie is the nearest best thing to falling in love yourself. Brilliant script, brilliant dialogues, brilliant actors, brilliant use of special effects. And how could Veronica Lake ever have become so forgotten? She just oozes sex appeal. She makes Marilyn Monroe look like a truck driver in drag. It becomes very apparent how, back in the day, every girl would have wanted to be her, and how every man would have wanted to be with her. I'm sold on Constance Frances Marie Ockelman.

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 !

I Married a Witch (1942) *** (out of 4) A witch is burned at the stake but comes back years later as a beautiful woman (Veronia Lake) to take revenge on a relative (Fredric March) of the man who had her killed in Rene Clair's comedy. I had been meaning to watch this film for several years now but never got around to it until now and I was happy to see it was as cute, charming and sweet as I had hoped. I didn't love the movie as some do but I can see it getting better with new viewings. Both March and Lake are terrific in their roles and come off as a great couple who you would want to see together. Susan Hayward adds nice support but it's Cecil Kellaway who steals the film as Lake's Warlock father.

Pleasing comedy fantasy. There are some moments where watching Lake perform is really nice -- I love the bitchy look and how she puts her arms out when she slams the door with her magic in anger. Lake plays a witch who accidentally casts a love spell on herself, and therfore ends up domesticating herself and adopting moral attitudes her warlock father is opposed to. Fun and slightly meaningful in the Sturges mold.

This is a fairly humorous story with decent special effects, especially considering it was made over 40 years ago. The key ingredient for success in this film was Veronica Lake. She's known more for her peekaboo blonde locks and for starring with Alan Ladd in several hit movies, but Lake was a good comedienne, too. Susan Hayward does well playing a snotty woman and Cecil Kellaway always plays an interesting character. Frederic March plays opposite Lake and I wish I hadn't read Lake's biography in which she explains how much she hated March. In made the love scenes lose a lot of impact when I learned how "forced" those scenes were. Oh, well. It's still a nice, lightweight comedy, nothing special but entertaining for the most part.....but it helps to be a fan of Veronica Lake, which I am.

Veronica Lake and Cecil Kellaway are witches who have been sealed up in a tree for about 300 years. They are NOT nice witches and are thrilled when a bolt of lightning shatters the tree and releases them to do evil! The first thing they want to do is destroy the descendants of the man who persecuted them during the witch trials. His most direct descendant is Frederick March and he is about to marry the woman he loves. So, Veronica plans on meeting him and placing a love potion in his drink so he becomes attracted to her instead--with the intention of then dumping him and leaving him miserable. Of course, being a comedy, she accidentally drinks the potion and falls head over heels for March! The acting is excellent (particularly Kellaway who is uncharacteristically EVIL in this movie) and the writing superb in the short little picture.