I MARRIED A WITCH
| (United Artists)
IN spite of the necromantic consequences, I would rather be Frederic March and married to Veronica Lake the Witch than be Nelson
Eddy and married to Jeannette MacDonald the Angel. I’m inclined to think that only a Frenchman could have made a film like this, and since the Frenchman is Rene Clair, you may expect it to contain both wit and imagination. Thig is also one of those rare cases whére Hollywood has improved on an original story, for M. Clair’s version is one hundred times funnier, cleverer, and sprightlier than Thorne — Smith’s novel The Passionate Witch, If you don’t object to fantasy, I commend for its tonic qualities this tale of the bewitching Jennifer and her disrepuable old wizard of a father (Cecil Kellaway), --
who return in the flesh to plague the modern descendant of the man who had them burned at the stake.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 15
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151I MARRIED A WITCH New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 15
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