I Married a Witch
- Fredric March: Wallace Wooley
- Veronica Lake: Jennifer
- Cecil Kellaway: Daniel
- Susan Hayward: Estelle Masterson
- Robert Benchley: Dr. Dudley White
- Robert Warwick: J. B. Masterson
- Elizabeth Patterson: Margaret
My wife, the witch ( original title: I Married a Witch ) is an American comedy film by the French director René Clair from 1942, based on the novel The Passionate Witch by Thorne Smith. The premiere took place in Germany on June 3, 1949.
Action
Daniel and his daughter Jennifer 'll convicted and executed in the Salem Witch Trials, her ashes will be buried under a tree, so that their demonic spirits are trapped. Jennifer, however, the informers, the Puritan Jonathan Wooley cursed. His male descendants will always be the wrong women to marry.
The decades pass. The men of the Wooley family suffer shrewish wives. A lightning strike destroyed the tree so that the spirits of Daniel and Jennifer are free again. They discover that Wallace Wooley a candidate for the gubernatorial post. He also wants to marry Estelle Masterson, whose father Wooleys support political ambitions financially. Daniel and Jennifer manifest as misty spirit forms and hide in empty alcohol bottles. Jennifer persuaded her father to give her a human body, so that they can do better to torment Wallace. For the magic of Daniel needs but fire, so he burns down a hotel. Jennifer gets a body and is also rescued by Wallace from the sea of flames.
Wallace feels by Jennifer tightened, but he does not want to jeopardize his marriage. Jennifer concocts a love potion for Wallace to seduce him. But while it is brewing the potion, she is struck down by a falling picture. Wallace brings back to consciousness by giving her to drink the brew.
Daniel also gives itself a body. Daniel hates all Wooley and wants to prevent a Jennifer Wooley helps. Unfortunately, staying in a not entirely empty bottle Daniel has made drunk, so that he can not transform into a frog Wallace. Estelle, however, finds Wallace and Jennifer in a tight hug and then calls off the wedding. Your angry father wants Wallace expose in his newspapers. Wallace is aware of his love for Jennifer sure both make up and away.
The two marry, Jennifer tries to save her husband's political career with her witchcraft. She creates little white clouds of smoke, which affect the brain of the voters into voting for Wallace. Wallace wins with a landslide election victory. But Wallace becomes suspicious.
Meanwhile, Daniel tries his daughter to escape the magical powers. He has the intention to terminate them or their spirit back into a tree. The frightened Jennifer interrupts the victory speech of her husband and begs him to help her in her flight. It stops on a taxi that is unfortunately directed by her father. Daniel leaves his daughter and Wallace back to the tree.
It's midnight, Wallace is being watched by two clouds of smoke. Before they return to the tree, Jennifer Wallace wants to see anguish. While Daniel Experienced with glee to Wallace, Jennifer slips back into the body. She manages to lock Daniel in a liquor bottle in which he is drunk and therefore powerless.
Years later - Jennifer and Wallace have children - explains the housekeeper Margaret parents that she had seen the youngest daughter riding on a broom. When asked her husband if one had to worry about himself, Jennifer can not give an answer. The film ends with worried eyes of the parents.
Background
- The film served as the basis for the TV series Love in a witch is not to be confused with the Italian comedy of the same title in 1981 by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia ( Mia moglie è una strega ).
- Frederic March plays not only Wallace Wooley. He also provides all the other male descendants of the Cursed Jonathan ( it myself of course ) dar.
- Robert Benchley, the grandfather of the writer Peter Benchley ( Jaws ), was not only an actor but also a sought-after theater critic.
- During the filming, there were tensions between Lake and March.
- In the credits mention screenplay remains the employees of Dalton Trumbo, who was standing in the McCarthy - era blacklisted in Hollywood. Using pseudonyms Trumbo won two Academy Awards in 1954 and 1957.
- Producer Sturges, who also serves as director and screenwriter ( won 1941 Oscar for Best Screenplay ) was much talked about, could win prestigious Employees: on the performer March ( Oscar 1932, 1947; Golden Globe 1952) and Susan Hayward (Oscar 1959 Golden Globe 1953, 1959); Writer Robert Pirosh (Oscar 1952); Art director Hans Dreier, a native German (Oscar in 1946 and twice in 1951 ); its also born in Germany Ernst swept colleagues (Oscar 1946); the unnamed uncredited Set decorator Sam Comer (Oscar in 1946, twice in 1951, 1956); Sound engineer Harry D. Mills, also uncredited unmentioned ( honorary Oscar in 1939 ); Special effects designer Gordon Jennings (Oscar 1942 1943 honorary Oscar 1939 Oscar Special 1945, 1952); Costume designer Edith Head (Oscar in 1950, twice in 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1961, 1974)
Reviews
" Witty, poetic René Clair comedy; a witty and artful witches fairy tale. "
" The femme fatale Veronica Lake developed under the direction of the French master director René Clair a wonderfully quirky sense of humor. "