IPhone video squashed down in iMovie

The frame of my iPhone video is tall and narrow, but the images look correct. When I import into iMovie to edit, the frame becomes normal sized, but the images are squashed vertically.
Is there anything I can do to make the phone video more compatible with iMovie?

Can you believe I've been holding the phone vertically to shoot all this time..?
Jeesh!

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