Bell
Book and Candle
The plot of BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE takes a playful
look at witchcraft in 1950’s Manhattan. James Stewart portrays Shep
Henderson, a book publisher who recently moved into an apartment above
a shop that sells unusual art. Kim Novak plays Shep’s downstairs neighbor
Gillian Holroyd, the shopkeeper who also happens to be a practicing
witch. Gillian immediately takes a liking to her new neighbor and
wishes she had someone nice like that in her life. However, when Gillian
discovers that Shep is about to marry her old college rival, Merle
Kittridge (Janice Rule), she casts a spell on Shep to save him from
her. Shep falls hard for Gillian, but eventually she realizes she
has to tell him the truth about herself, as well as why he is so madly
in love with her. BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE also stars Jack Lemmon as
Gillian’s bongo playing warlock brother Nicky, Elsa Lanchester is
Gillian’s dotty old aunt Queenie, Hermione Gingold plays powerful
elder with Bianca De Pass and Ernie Kovacs is the somewhat clueless
and inebriated supernatural author Sidney Redlitch. 
