 The TV series Bewitched was very loosely based on a 1942 movie, I Married a Witch, from a book (The Passionate Witch) by Thorne Smith. Danny DeVito is making a new movie from the original story. The 1942 movie begins in 1672 New England, when Puritan Jonathan Wooley (Frederick March) burns a witch, Jennifer (Veronica Lake). 250 years later a lightning strike releases her from a tree trunk and she intends to make trouble for her persecutor s descendants. Wallace Wooley, now candidate for governor, is about to marry Estelle (Susan Hayward) but a love potion goes wrong.