John Van Druten's stage comedy Bell Book and Candle starred Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on Broadway. The 1958 filmed version stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, fresh from their successful teaming...
John Van Druten's stage comedy Bell Book and Candle starred Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on Broadway. The 1958 filmed version stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, fresh from their successful teaming in Hitchcock's Vertigo. Novak plays Gillian Holroyd, a genuine, bonafide witch. Falling in love with publisher Sheperd Henderson (Stewart), Gillian casts a spell on him, obliging him to dump his fiancee and rush to her side. All of this goes against the grain of Gillian's mentor Mrs. De Pass (Hermione Gingold), who does her best to counterract the love spell. Meanwhile, Gillian's wacky warlock brother Nicky (Jack Lemmon) courts disaster by coauthoring a book on black magic with pompous, bibulous novelist Sidney Redlitch (Ernie Kovacs).
James Stewart - Shepard Henderson Kim Novak - Gillian Holroyd Jack Lemmon - Mickey Holrod Ernie Kovacs - Sidney Redlitch Hermione Gingold - Mrs. De Pass Elsa Lanchester - Queenie Janice Rule - Merle Kittridge Philippe Clay - French Singer Bek Nelson - Secretary Howard McNear - Andy White Wolfe Barzell - Proprietor Gail Bonney - Merle's Maid Monty Ash - Herb Store Owner Don Brodie - Cab Driver James Lanphier - Waldo Ollie O'Toole - Elevator Operator John Truax - Cab Driver
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Well, I loved this movie I REALLY DID. I can't stress that enough. Loved It. That being said It was just a touch sexist. Its the whole idea that a woman can only be powerful and independent if she shuns love or men. In the movie it makes it plain that such a woman would be desperately unhappy and could only BE happy as a powerless, harmless love object. It broke my heart when she got her man but lost her familiar, a part of herself and source of strength. Thats just how I saw it.
I prefered the ending to the movie I Married a Witch with Veronica Lake and Frederick March. She too settles down to marriage (which is odd because the movie also presented her as something of a ghost). Her husband was governor, and she the first lady and all their kids were running around their feet looking normal, and than this one blonde girl come out straddling a broom.
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Because we all know,a good witch never does get fat
and after she bent over to lite the midnight candle,
she may find something more than a broom handle
but even if she can not cook
I'd stay awake to read her book
and even thought I may go to hell
I'd really love to ring her bell
Here's to the past,it was so sweet,
especially with a witch at your feet
Little did they know she was masturbating.