Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle. 1958 Columbia Pictures.
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Janice Rule, Elsa Lanchester, Ernie Kovacs
Director: Richard Quine
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Kim Novak is Gillian Holroyd, a witch living in Greenwich Village, is unlucky in love and restless in life. She is sweet on her neighbor, the publisher Shep Henderson (Stewart), who comes by one night to use her telephone, and he seems a little uncomfortable about her gallery of primitive art. Gillian finds out that Henderson is going to marry one of her old college rivals, Merle Kittridge (Rule), and casts a love spell on him. Instead, Gillian starts to fall in love with Shep herself. She has a difficult decision to make, since according to the movie, witches who fall in love lose their supernatural powers.

Also, the author of a best seller called Magic in Mexico, Sidney Redlitch (Kovacs), arrives in New York, and Shep is interested in meeting. Redlitch is researching a book on witches living in New York City, and he gains an unexpected collaborated when Gillian's warlock brother Nicky (Lemmon) agrees to help out, in exchange for a portion of the profits.

Cute film. Recommended.