Bell, Book and Candle 1958 123movies

Watch: Bell, Book and Candle 1958 123movies, Full Movie Online – Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) is a modern-day witch living in Greenwich Village. A publisher named Shep Henderson (James Stewart) moves into the apartment above hers and she becomes interested in him. When she learns he is going to marry her college nemesis, Merle Kittridge (Janice Rule), the next day, Gillian uses her cat, Pyewacket, to cast a love spell on Shep. Shep is immediately enamored with Gillian and breaks up with Merle on the morning of their wedding. Gillian makes it so that author Sidney Redlitch (Ernie Kovacs) visits Shep in the hope that Shep will publish his next book, about witches in New York. When Gillian learns that her warlock brother, Nicky (Jack Lemmon), is collaborating with Sidney, she is worried that Shep will learn about her true nature and her spell on Shep. Since Gillian finds herself actually falling in love with Shep, something that will make her lose her powers, she must make a choice as to what she really wants..
Plot: A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead… only to fall in love with him for real.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 11,505
	75% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 172 Popularity: 8.449 | TMDB

Reviews:

Do You Believe in Magic in a Young Girl’s Heart? Jimmy Stewart sure does.
It took Bell, Book, and Candle almost a decade to get from Broadway to the screen. John Van Druten’s play ran for 233 performances during the 1950-1951 season and served as a starring vehicle for the then married Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. I’m sure that the Shepherd Henderson that Harrison portrayed must have been light years different than Jimmy Stewart. Also the entire play took place in the Holroyd apartment and a whole lot of characters were added for the screen.

A good job was done in transferring this stage work for the screen, it barely betrays it’s stage origin. Stewart is very good as the puzzled publisher who gets ensnared in a witch’s spell because Kim Novak takes a fancy to him.

Novak was quoted as saying that her favorite leading man during her career was Jimmy Stewart and her two favorite films, Vertigo and Bell Book and Candle are the ones she did with him.

Hermione Gingold is absolutely brilliant as the head witch, Mrs. DePass, and watching Stewart drink that concoction she mixed up to kill Kim Novak’s spell was a scream.

Jack Lemmon plays Novak’s brother and by this time he was doing leads and carrying films on his own. He’s good, but I do wonder why he accepted a supporting part here.

One thing I am curious about. How did they manage to get Pyewacket the cat to act on stage for 233 performances?

Puberty Catalyst
I researched this film a little and discovered a web site that claims it was actually an inside joke about the Post WWII Greenwich Village world of gays and lesbians. With the exception of Stewart and Novak, the warlocks and witches represented that alternative lifestyle. John Van Druten who wrote the stage play was apparently gay and very familiar with this Greenwich Village. I thought this was ironic because I first saw Bell, Book and Candle in the theater when I was in 5th or 6th grade just because my parents took me. It was hard to get me to a movie that didn’t include horses, machine guns, or alien monsters and I planned on being bored. But, I remember the moment when Jimmy Stewart embraced Kim Novak on the top of the Flatiron building and flung his hat away while the camera followed it fluttering to the ground. As the glorious George Duning love theme soared, I suddenly got a sense of what it felt like to fall in love. The first stirrings of romantic/sexual love left me dazed as I left the theater. I am sure I’m not the only pre-adolescent boy who was seduced by Kim Novak’s startling, direct gaze. It’s ironic that a gay parable was able to jump-start heterosexual puberty in so many of us. I am in my late 50’s now and re-watched the film yesterday evening and those same feelings stirred as I watched that hat touch down fifty years later . . .

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Director Richard Quine
Writer Daniel Taradash, John Van Druten
Actors James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm