There was at least one witch movie before this, "I Married A Witch", with Frederic March and Veronica Lake, in 1942. Both that and this influenced "Bewitched", which came out in 1964.
Pyewacket is, of course, the main character of the story, and it's all about how he gives Gillian the present she asked for..... Joking, naturally! However, please note that Pye is the both the first and last living creature we see in the movie, and he does get the last word! Auntie is the famous Elsa Lanchester, wife of Charles Laughton. Also the Bride in "The Bride of Frankenstein", among other fun and dramatic credits. Madame de Pass is the equally wonderful and eccentric Hermione Gingold, who made few movie appearances, but who made them count. And our eccentric writer is Ernie Kovacs, who had a revolutionary comedy skit show in the 1950s. He died in a car accident at the age of only 42. This is early Jack Lemmon, before super stardom, but, as you can see, he knows his craft.
One of the two famous Hermiones. She sang "These Foolish Things" on the Merv Griffin Show once and told Merv how her husband wrote that song for Anna May Wong. Merv asked whether she knew about her husband's pash for Wong, and she said, "Not until later, and then I left. But I still love that song."
I do hope you'll give this another chance: the movie is far from perfect, but it's a lovely Christmas watch and Halloween watch. It can be seen as a sweet sort of fairy tale of true love, or a metaphor for life as an "other". And part of it is also, for me, familiarity and enjoyment of this very gifted cast.
_The Man with the Golden Arm_ and _Jeanne Eagels_ have good roles for Kim Novak. Unrelated (well, she has played at least one witch), but as Maggie Smith has recently died, I'm going to throw in a suggestion for _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie._
The movie is based on a Broadway play and witchcraft was used as a metaphor for homosexuality. So it's a play about gay people and how they lived on the margins and had to conceal themselves but had their own subculture that few noticed or aware of. It was made by Columbia pictures where Novak was their top star at this point. The play was a hit and was bought by Columbia to be a Kim Novak vehicle. Stewart was cast as part of the deal between Paramount and Columbia with Novak loaned to Paramount to make Vertigo and in exchange Stewart would go to Columbia to make this.
There was at least one witch movie before this, "I Married A Witch", with Frederic March and Veronica Lake, in 1942. Both that and this influenced "Bewitched", which came out in 1964.
Another good horror movie (on one thinks of it as a horror movie) is *THE BAD SEED* 1956--- It's a horror movie.
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Pyewacket is, of course, the main character of the story, and it's all about how he gives Gillian the present she asked for.....
Joking, naturally! However, please note that Pye is the both the first and last living creature we see in the movie, and he does get the last word!
Auntie is the famous Elsa Lanchester, wife of Charles Laughton. Also the Bride in "The Bride of Frankenstein", among other fun and dramatic credits.
Madame de Pass is the equally wonderful and eccentric Hermione Gingold, who made few movie appearances, but who made them count.
And our eccentric writer is Ernie Kovacs, who had a revolutionary comedy skit show in the 1950s. He died in a car accident at the age of only 42.
This is early Jack Lemmon, before super stardom, but, as you can see, he knows his craft.
One of the two famous Hermiones. She sang "These Foolish Things" on the Merv Griffin Show once and told Merv how her husband wrote that song for Anna May Wong. Merv asked whether she knew about her husband's pash for Wong, and she said, "Not until later, and then I left. But I still love that song."
I do hope you'll give this another chance: the movie is far from perfect, but it's a lovely Christmas watch and Halloween watch. It can be seen as a sweet sort of fairy tale of true love, or a metaphor for life as an "other". And part of it is also, for me, familiarity and enjoyment of this very gifted cast.
You liked Kim's costumes. The designer got an Oscar nomination for them.
Thank you for reacting to this. I think you're the only one ☮️
It's funny because I watched your reaction to _The Red Shoes_ right before this.
_The Man with the Golden Arm_ and _Jeanne Eagels_ have good roles for Kim Novak.
Unrelated (well, she has played at least one witch), but as Maggie Smith has recently died, I'm going to throw in a suggestion for _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie._
The movie is based on a Broadway play and witchcraft was used as a metaphor for homosexuality. So it's a play about gay people and how they lived on the margins and had to conceal themselves but had their own subculture that few noticed or aware of. It was made by Columbia pictures where Novak was their top star at this point. The play was a hit and was bought by Columbia to be a Kim Novak vehicle. Stewart was cast as part of the deal between Paramount and Columbia with Novak loaned to Paramount to make Vertigo and in exchange Stewart would go to Columbia to make this.
Elsa Lanchester _(The Bride of Frankenstein)._
Kim Novak is still alive. I believe she is 90!
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@@MoviesandCoffee Actually 91, until next February...
It was first a play on Broadway...
And I believe Pye is a statue that Gill talks to.
If you like this movie, you should check out _I Married a Witch_ with Veronica Lake. Even if you don't, because it's better.
Try (if you haven't already) *NIGHT OF THE HUNTER* 1955.
Jack did The Apartment about 2 years later than this film.
Xmas movie...love it.
Jimmy was the double age, than Kim Novak at the time...
It's hard to root for this couple.
A mitch! I might use that.
The zodiac existed before the Zodiac Killer.
If they were doing this movie today, I think Nicky and the author character would fall in love.
I think it's Val-ance, not Va-lance, by the way.
Was there a movie called Tarzan The Fearless from 1933?
Kim Novak is still alive. She's 90!
@@TomReda-m7w I saw her give some Q&As last year.
@@TomReda-m7w 91...
Do people really think that Rowling invented all the stuff in Harry Potter? How sad.
I don't like that white dress at the end.