kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** The film that inspired the TV hit series "Bewitched"-Bewitched! Bewitched! you know that craft so well- some 25 years later stars the drop dead gorgeous blonde not yet out of her teens Veronia Lake as 270 year old Jennifer. It's Jennifer who together with her warlock dad Daniel,Cecil Kallaway, who came back to life with the help of a lighting strike to hunt the decedent of puritan Nathaniel Wooley, Fredric March, who condemned them both to death back in the 17th century for practicing witchcraft. Working together as a team Jennifer and her dad Daniel take aim at Nathaniel's great-to something like the 10th generation-grandson Jonathon Wooley also played by Fredic March who's expected to win the election for the state governor as well as planning to marry pretty red-head Estelle Masterson, Susan Hayward, the same evening as part of a double-header!With Jennifer suddenly coming on the scene with her making Johathon save her life in a hotel fire he ends up cooked with his both political and marriage lives in her taking control of them. Jennifer who at first tried to do everything possible to make Johathon's life miserable soon falls madly in love with the somewhat confused jerk who has no idea who she really is-A Witch-and what she and her dad Daniel have planned for him. Breaking up Jonathon's marriage plans was bad enough but leaving him out to hang just didn't quite work out as Jennifer planned. With her dad turning on her for not going through in destroying Jonathon's love life, by her falling in love with him, Jennifer also saves his political career by getting the entire state electorate-2,700,000 to 0-with her witchcraft to vote him into office!***SPOILERS***It's Jennifer's warlock dad Daniel who disapproved in her falling in love and marrying Johathon that was the last stepping stone for her to overcome and she did it by tricking him, who's a down and out drunk to begin with, to get himself lost in a bottle of bourbon and with Jennifer putting the cork down on it was never to bother them again. Veronica Lake started a whole new craze in hairstyles with her Peek-a-Boo look in the movie that it almost cost the war for the US against Nazi Germany and Emperial Japan. That with so many young women working in defense plants- With the men away fighting the war- producing war material having their hair caught in the machinery that she had to drastically change it-For patriotic reasons-in order to keep the war economy going.

SimonJack Other reviewers note the career and groundbreaking work at the time of French director René Clair. The special effects in "I Married a Witch," were very well done and don't seem archaic by modern standards. But, since "The Wizard of Oz" of 1939 and this film in1942, many more movies and TV programs have aired that have witches, magic and/or sorcery. None have been more popular than the blockbusters of the early 21st century – "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the "Harry Potter" series. So, this older film is quite dated among the genre. The acting is good by all the cast, especially the leads. Fredric March has four roles as Wallace Wooley and three of his ancestors. Veronica Lake is Jennifer and Cecil Kellaway is her father, Daniel. They are the witches (or witch and warlock) of the movie. Robert Benchley is very good as Dr. Dudley White, Wooley's friend and backer. And Susan Hayward is good in her role as Estelle Masterson.The comedy here doesn't come from witty dialog or a clever script. It's mostly in situations. The plot is easy to figure out and follow, so the entertainment is just in seeing how the main characters played by March and Lake relate. In spite of the praise for the director, there's very little special about this film. I suspect that most viewers in the 21st century would find it just mildly entertaining.

JasparLamarCrabb 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.

gmonger This is Veronica Lake's best movie. She is the reason to watch this movie. It is a slower paced movie than today's comedies with a more subtle humor, sometime even a dry humor. I thought it was great. She is great. Veronica makes the movie , she is a great comedian, cuter than a button, and this is the best character she plays in her career. Talk about a great cast, Susan Hayward is hilarious as the bitchy fiancée. She is stunningly radiant in her opening scene in that white dress and both are a feast for the eyes.The scenes of the re-staging of the wedding gets funnier and funnier, the angrier that she and her dad become. Veronica has a "beauty shot" ( a shot set up perfectly, almost as a still portrait and many times an establishing shot of that actor in the film, like Rita Hayworth flinging her hair back in Gilda or John Wayne, when the camera pulls up to a close-up in Stagecoach), that is one of the best ever. Later she is in a dress that you can see through, may be worth it just for that, and she is tiny and adorable throughout. Robert Benchley is a great comedian to play off of Frederick March, and Frederick is downright dashing and perfect for the part. The maid and Veronica's father are so important, as great character actors are, and shine in the few scenes they do.This is one of the unknown great movies. Why it isn't as popular as, It happened One Night any Katherine Hepburn movie, or The Odd Couple type of movies is a mystery. Perhaps you may notice, that is the movies I will review to start, the great unknowns. Everyone knows about Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, Casablanca etc... I hope my reviews can interest you enough to go see these lesser known films. This is one of them. Veronica's best and one of the best comedies of all time.