Old Hollywood classics: "I married a witch" and "The thin man"

Recently I watched not one but two excellent old black & white classic Hollywood movies that deserve to be mention here.

"I married a witch" (1942) is a delicious comedy about witches revenging on descendants of their persecutors who now in a present time have political ambitions. Veronica Lake is delightful witch Jennifer who amusedly focuses her attention on Mr.Wooley who proudly displays portraits of his ancestors on the wall,while she knows and recognizes them all too well. Wallace Wooley is played by excellent Frederic March who I know from one of the best movies I have ever seen, classic "The best years of our lives" - here he is a little younger but still wonderful scene stealer, though is hard to see anybody else when Veronica Lake is on the screen, she was such a beauty. Another interesting actor here is Cecil Kellaway as a lovable father of witch Jennifer, he is helping her with his magical tricks and obviously enjoying being on earth again and falling in all kinds of troubles, actually he is one of the most likable characters in the movie. Elizabeth Patterson plays grumpy house help who is against this newcomer in the house (but she has no authority against witchcraft) and Susan Hayward is surprisingly good snooty fiancee who gets one of the worst movie weddings ever. Cutest little comedy that still looks beautiful today.

Even better is "The Thin Man" and this one is actually even older (from 1934) but actually better movie. I didn't know anything about it before I decided to check it out last evening and couldn't stop watching it,laughing with pleasure all the way trough and at certain point I started talking to myself "what a wonderful movie, completely out of the blue!" - the story is very simple crime comedy but its the actors who uplift this into completely different,higher level. William Powell and Myrna Loy are irresistible newly married couple somehow involved into a murder mystery and there are tons of chemistry between them, they are actually truly believable as bitchy partners who love and tease each other. The script gives them sharp wit that looks completely spontaneous and even with all the other actors in the movie, its Powell and Loy who are true stars - and they have this cutest dog Asta who is completely opposite of house-keeping dog,always hiding under the bed when danger arrives. I loved this movie so much that I giggled all the way trough and honestly can say it's one of the great feel-good classics.