Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit
  • Release date: 3 Oct 1945
  • Release year: 1945
  • Runtime: 96 minutes
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Keywords: screwball comedy, ghost, comedy of manners, author, medium, love triangle, reference to irving berlin, accident, reference to merlin, quoting hamlet
Plot:
To get background for a new book, author Charles Condomine (Sir Rex Harrison) and his second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) light-heartedly arrange for local mystic Madame Arcati (Dame Margaret Rutherford) to give a seance. The unfortunate result is that Charles' first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond) returns from beyond the grave to make his life something of a misery. Ruth too gets increasingly irritated with her supernatural rival, but Madame Arcati is at her wit's end as to how to sort things out.
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