Bell, Book and Candle

#1

Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 9:41pm

I've never seen it but I think it was the inspiration for 'Bewitched'. I also know that the amazing Kim Novak was in it.
Any thoughts?

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#2

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 9:45pm

It's playing on TCM on July 3rd if anyone was curious. It's part of the Witchy Women segment along with TCM's annual showing of "The Wizard of Oz". I've never seen it but I'll probably end up watching it.

#3

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 9:45pm

Would make a great musical

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#4

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 9:46pm

I want TCM!!

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#5

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 9:47pm

Very similar. Kim plays Gillian who sets out to win a man using witchcraft. She has a "familiar", a cat called Pyewacket, and a brother called Nicky and a daffy aunt who are also witches. I think she loses her powers if she genuinely falls in love...which, of course, she does.

#6

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 9:48pm

I've seen Novak in Vertigo and The Mirror Cracked.
I likeeeeee.

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#7

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 9:52pm

And in PAL JOEY, n'est-ce pas, Glebby?

#8

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 9:58pm

I thought Bewitched was based on a movie called "I Married a Witch" starring Veronica Lake...but I could be wrong.

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"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!

#9

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 10:00pm

Now you've gone and exposed me.
I've never seen 'Pal Joey'.

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#10

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 10:00pm

redhot you are correct.......Bewitched was based on I Married a Witch.

My dad sat next to Kim Novack on a plane years ago.....

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#11

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 10:05pm

Where did I see her name associated with Desiree in NIGHT MUSIC recently? She was supposed to play it somewhere?

#12

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 10:19pm

Kim as Desiree? Intriguing, Wildcat.

I remember reading (sometime in the last few years) that a house fire destroyed the memoir she was working on. I really hope she took it up again (between Harry Cohn and Sammy Davis, I'll bet she has some fascinating stories).

#13

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 10:22pm

Novak/Desiree = intriguing in my opinion as well Wildcat.
Let's hope it happens.

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#14

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 10:43pm

this is wonderful show, i Stage managed it 12 yrs ago, it we had a blast.

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#15

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 10:45pm

I just saw the play, and in the notes it said that Bewitched was based on IT. It's a cute play, I guess I didn't know there was a movie...

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#16

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 6/30/05 at 11:22pm

Yay!

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#17

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 12:50am

Speaking of Novak, anyone for "Strangers When We Meet," also starring Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs, and Walter Matthau?

Novak's husband is impotent, so she begins an affair with married architect Douglas, whose trapped, WASPy, suburban wife is being sexually harrassed by neighborhood sleazeball Matthau. Douglas is presented as a hero, because he's about to begin cutting down the Hawaiian rain forest in order to build an ultra-moderne super-city a la Brasilia. Kovacs is a confused creative type with writer's block.

All this in the lushest imaginable technicolor. Delicious.

#18

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 1:04am

Loved "Strangers."

Loved "Bell, Book."

"Vertigo" is the best of all Kim's films, in my opinion.

I even liked her in "Of Human Bondage" with Laurence Harvey.

#19

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 6:20am

Vertigo keeps me glued to the screen, no matter how many times I see it - one of the finest films ever made, and Novak is simply stunning in the role/s...Bell Book and Candle might just make a really sweet musical.

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"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!

#20

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 10:58am

As I recall, "Strangers When We Meet" has a rare film performance from Helen Gallagher and she's rather good.

I think Kim was asked to replace Lee Remick in that L.A. revival of NIGHT MUSIC that Lois Nettleton ended up doing, and she was unable to audition for some reason...

#21

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 11:32am

I’m not crazy about the movie version of “Picnic” (the story is so dated, Rosalind Russell is just unbearable, and William Holden, hot as he is, is too old for his part), but I absolutely love Kim’s performance in it. She’s very young and still a little stiff as an actress, but there’s something just so appealing about her as Madge.

Completely agree with everyone on “Vertigo”…she’s heartbreaking in her scenes as “Judy” (and Kim looks fantastic as a brunette!).

#22

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 11:41am

Ooooooooooo

"Picnic"

#23

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 11:47am

Did somebody say he's never seen PAL JOEY?

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#24

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 12:31pm

Another interesting "Bewitched" and "Bell" connection...

Elza Lancaster played Kim Novak's aunt?/mother? in the movie, and wasn't she the original Aunt Clara in "Bewitched" in first episodes before she died?

#25

re: Bell, Book and Candle

Posted: 7/1/05 at 12:31pm

I didn't say it, but I haven't seen Pal Joey myself either.

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