The Australian blog Sexy Witch has featured some promotional materials from the 1942 movie I Married a Witch lately.
It starred Veronica Lake, who filled the “perky petite blonde” slot in several “screwball comedies” of the 1940s, together with banker-turned-actor Fredric March as the descendant of her 17th-century persecutor. Internet Movie Database has more about it.
I saw it years ago, was thinking along the lines of “Let’s rent it for Halloween,” and discovered that Netflix does not have it.
Apparently I rented it in the 1990s from another mail-order video-rental company that no longer exists, but which had a large library of off-beat, foreign, vintage, and “art” movies.
So we will watch Sullivan’s Travels instead.
UPDATE: “Why You Should Watch Classic Films.”
Having grown up in the days of local TV broadcasting afternoon movies on weekdays after school, I gotta say that movies like “I Married A Witch” and 30s-40s actresses like Veronica Lake did influence–nudge me along in–my youthful Paganish practice. Probably giving me a notion that supernatural gifts and undertakings could actually co-exist with the ordinary world…And upholding my own fan enthusiasms and dislikes…
I am very frustrated that I have absolutely no clue who ‘Red Witch’, owner of the Sexy Witch blog, is, even though they apparently live in the same city (which, admittedly is a big one) as me!!!!!
All this time I thought that perhaps you did indeed know the identity of “Red Witch.” But yes, Melbourne is a big city. And Sexy Witch is more about images of witches in pop culture than about the religion.
Yes,… a few years ago I think Red Witch was said to live in Sydney and worked in something like ‘Economics’, although I might remember incorrectly (but I think I’m reasonably correct). But that was why back then I couldn’t guess who it was – if indeed it is someone I would have heard of at all – and I still don’t know, and I’m sure they wouldn’t tell me if I asked either. Anyway, they might live somewhere altogether different, Christmas Island for example, and work in, say, horse training… as one does not have to be truthful – or even corporeal – on the Internet, does one?