{"id":1850,"date":"2010-10-14T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T16:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2012-03-06T21:10:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:10:33","slug":"veronica-lake-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1850","title":{"rendered":"Veronica Lake for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian blog Sexy Witch <\/em>has featured some promotional materials from the 1942\u00a0 movie I Married a Witch<\/em><\/a> lately.<\/p>\n

It starred Veronica Lake<\/a>, 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.\u00a0 Internet Movie Database has more about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

So we will watch Sullivan’s Travels<\/em><\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: “Why You Should Watch Classic Films<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian blog Sexy Witch has featured some promotional materials from the 1942\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Internet Movie Database has more about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,36,29],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halloween","tag-movies","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-tQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":252,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=252","url_meta":{"origin":1850,"position":0},"title":"Another witchy movie Keeping up\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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