I Married A Witch (1942)

Episode #58

October 9, 2023

95 1 minute read

United Artists released I Married a Witch on October 30, 1942. René Clair directed film starring Fredric March, Veronica Lake, and Robert Benchley.

‘I Married A Witch’ Criterion Synopsis

Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, this blonde bombshell with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them—a prospective governor (Fredric March) about to marry a spoiled socialite (Susan Hayward). The most delightful of the films the innovative French director René Clair made in Hollywood, I Married a Witch is a comic confection bursting with playful special effects and sparkling witticisms.

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