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I Married a Witch Overview:

I Married a Witch (1942) was a Comedy - Fantasy Film directed by René Clair and produced by Buddy G. DeSylva, Preston Sturges and René Clair.

Academy Awards 1942 --- Ceremony Number 15 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringRoy WebbNominated

I Married a Witch BlogHub Articles:

This Month at the Library : I Married a Witch (1942) - Bewitched, Bothered and Charmed

My local library is kind enough to indulge my desire to share my passion for classic film by allowing me to show a classic film once a month. And once in a while, a few film fans wander in and share the enjoyment.October's Film: I Married a Witch (1942)I admit I approached this film with a kind of b... Read full article


Fredric March and Veronic Lake in Rene Clair’s “I Married a Witch”

Fredric March and Veronic Lake in Rene Clair’s “I Married a Witch” I Married a Witch (1942) is a romantic comedy fantasy directed by Rene Clair and starring Fredric March and Veronica Lake. The cinematography is by Ted Tetzlaff, music by Roy Webb, and costumes by Edith Head.Th... Read full article


[BASP] I Married a Witch (1942, René Clair) / Bewitched (2005, Nora Ephron)

The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Nineteen I Married a Witch (1942, René Clair) / Bewitched (2005, Nora Ephron) Originally posted: June 27, 2012 Subscribe via iTunes.... Read full article


I Married a Witch (1942)

Directed by French emigre Rene Clair, I Married a Witch is a surprisingly cheeky comedy for the 1940s. The plot opens up with the Salem Witch Trials where a male and female witch are to be burnt at the stake. However, before dying they cast a curse on the lineage of one Jonathan Wooley (played in Pu... Read full article


I Married a Witch (1942)

Directed by French emigre Rene Clair, I Married a Witch is a surprisingly cheeky comedy for the 1940s. The plot opens up with the Salem Witch Trials where a male and female witch are both to be burnt at the stake. However, before dying they cast a curse on the lineage of one Jonathan Wooley (played... Read full article


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I Married a Witch Quotes:

Dr. Dudley White: Oh well, it's late, I've got to be getting into my strait jacket. I'll call a broom.

Daniel: Goodbye, Jennifer, be a bad girl.

Jennifer: Ever hear of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? That was our crowd.

Wallace Wooley: I'm afraid you've got a hangover.
Daniel: Don't tell me what I've got! I invented the hangover. It was in 1892... B.C.

Jennifer: 'Twould be nice to have lips... lips to whisper lies... lips to kiss man and make him suffer. Father, why cannot I have lips, and eyes, and hair?
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I Married a Witch Facts
Several cast members listed in studio records did not appear in the movie. These were (with their character names): Reed Hadley (Young Man), Jan Buckingham (Young Woman), Florence Gill (Woman Playing Chess) and Walter Soderling (Man Playing Chess).

Many scenes had to be reshot because of the unprofessional behavior of Veronica Lake. Fredric March, her co-star, found her annoying and started to call the movie "I Married a Bitch". Other Lake co-stars held her in the same low esteem.

Dalton Trumbo was a contributing writer, but left because his interpretation of the novel differed from producer Preston Sturges. Sturges also left the production (and declined onscreen credit) because of artistic differences with director René Clair

Veronica Lake and Fredric March did not like one another, due in part to some disparaging remarks March made about her. During filming, Lake delighted in playing pranks on March, such as hiding a 40-pound weight under her costume when March had to carry her in his arms. In another scene in which the two were photographed only from the waist up, Lake stuck her foot in March's groin.

Joel McCrea was initially cast as the lead, but declined the role because he didn't want to work again with Veronica Lake, his co-star in Sullivan's Travels.

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