150 Word Review: 'I Married A Witch' (1942)
Cast a sexy spell
Veronica Lake is sultry and mischievous as an immortal sorceress with a grudge against humans in director René Clair’s hilarious dark fantasy, I Married a Witch. When we first meet Fredric March, he’s Jonathan Wooley, a Puritan responsible for burning a pair of witches, Daniel and his daughter Jennifer, at the stake. Once a pile of ashes, their spirits are then imprisoned in a tree, but not before the witches curse the Wooley men to romantic doom. March goes on to play other Wooleys over the centuries in an inspired set-up to 1942, where he finally settles in as Wallace Wooley, a politician about to marry the wrong woman.
Meanwhile, Daniel and Jennifer are set free — their souls visualized as plumes of smoke — when a lightning strike frees them, and Jennifer possesses a body that is va-va-va-voom. Clair’s rom-com is full of gallows humor and playful special effects.
Sounds like the boy-version of "Practical Magic" (arguably the best witch story ever)
Wouldn't it be ironic if she married a man from the lineage she cursed. Wait, that's what happens, isn't it?