Bell, Book and Candle (1991, VHS)

Bell, Book and Candle (1958) I always had a bit of difficulty believing Jimmy Stewart in those trendy 1950s movies where they tried to depict the folksy actor as a successful young (middle-aged?) executive, single, of course, with a bombshell of a girlfriend about 25 years his junior, you know, one like Grace Kelly, or Kim Novak in Bell, Book and Candle. What the 25 year-old Novak saw in that 50 year-old Stewart always seemed a little unreal. Actually, I think they were trying to pass him off as younger than his actual age, but now that I m over fifty myself, I see it clearly as miscasting....

The witch and mortal relationship has long been a staple of Hollywood entertainments. The sisters on Charmed fall in love with mere mortal men every season. Sabrina Spellman dated several mortals before ending up with Harvey Kinkel. Who can forget Samantha Stevens and her human hubby Darren. Before any of these, however, there was Gillian Holroyd and Sheperd Henderson. I can hear the general reader saying, Who?!? Gillian and Sheperd are the central characters in the movie Bell, Book and Candle and are played brilliantly by Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart. This movie manages to be both funny and...

I bought this film for my husband for Christmas this year. We had a copy dubbed from the library (shh, don t tell the FBI. I know their biggest job right now is hunting down people who copy movies instead of buying them and I don t want to get caught.) We had watched it several months ago and he mentioned that he d like to have a better copy of the film. I, in turn, mentioned it to Rox731 who found it on the Internet and asked if I wanted her to get it for me for him. Then a couple months later I had her run across the street and buy a DVD player for me for him. (Do you get the idea that...