270 year ago in salem and a witch and her father be burn at the the stake by a new england puritan and who be curse along with all his descendant by black magic and will never find happiness in romance while jump ahead to the present day ( circa 1942 ) and the witch be release from their hold spot and the bewitching lass discover the late descendant be a handsome politician with a shrew for a fiancée ( the witch father tell her men always marry the wrong woman it the girl who get away who cause the real unhappiness ) . from the story the passionate witch by thorne smith and norman matson come a teasing and silly romantic comedy which begin brightly but flag sometime after that . fredric march be appropriately befuddle and but veronica lake ( despite her famous peek a boo tress ) have very little charisma ( and her sing songy delivery be a nuisance ) . the plot be so thin it doesn not even count a a contrivance sequence ( like a disastrous wedding or a hotel fire ) start and stop like sketch and and nothing in it be very memorable . from .