Product Description Blithe Spirit is David Lean's 1945 film adaptation of a comical three-act play by Noel Coward. Newly-married mystery novelist Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison) and his second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira (Kay Hammond). The film won the Academy Award for Best Effects (Thomas Howard I) in 1947. From Amazon.co.uk Noel Coward's favourite play, Blithe Spirit, was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known at the time for adapting Dickens. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. -- Bill Desowitz Synopsis In Blithe Spirit mystery novelist Charles invites a medium over for dinner in the hope of gathering enough material for his latest book, as well as exposing her as a charlatan. A series of incidents which transpire during the course of the night result in a chain of supernatural events, which wreak havoc on Charles' present marriage, while bringing to light serious flaws in his previous one.

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