Still image from the 1945 film Blithe Spirit.

Blithe Spirit

Directed by David Lean

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

1945 1h 36m Comedy TV-G

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CAST
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David Lean, Director
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David Lean
Director

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Rex Harrison, Charles Condomine
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Rex Harrison
Charles Condomine

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Hugh Wakefield,
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Hugh Wakefield

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Margaret Rutherford,
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FULL SYNOPSIS

Adapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Constance, are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost.


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ARTICLES
Written in less than a week during some of the darkest days of World War II, Noel Coward's lighthearted ghost story Blithe Spiritwas a huge success on the London stage, running for nearly two thousand performances, a record-breaking run that it held for three decades. In began in early May of 1941, when the German Blitzkreig air attack had been hammering England for months, and Coward's London office and flat had been destroyed. He had taken refuge at a picturesque resort on the Welsh coast, and after a few false starts sat down and wrote the play in a feverish few days. In July the play opened in London, and by November it was also playing to great success on Broadway. No playwright was better at fast-paced verbal wit than Coward, and Blithe Spirit was just the kind of escapist entertainment that war-weary audiences craved. Charles Condomine is a mystery novelist who invites quirky medium Madame Arcati to conduct a séance at his home as research for a book he's writing. For the skeptical Charles, his wife, and another couple, the séance is just entertainment. But Arcati actually manages to summon the spirit of Charles's volatile first wife Elvira, and Elvira refuses to go back where she came from, bringing comic havoc to Charles's staid life with his current wife. Hollywood was interested in making a film of Blithe Spirit, but Coward had been disappointed that censorship had dimmed the sparkle of the American film adaptations of his plays Private Lives and Design for Livin...

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