Blithe Spirit (1945)
- 1945 film
Film based on the stage hit by Noel Coward. A writer is haunted by the ghost of his first wife Elvira after accidentally summoning her during a séance. Also features Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield and more.
Press clippings
VE Day: What was making us laugh 75 years ago?
A look back at the comedy on air in June 1945.
Chortle, 8th May 2020Jennifer Saunders to star in Blithe Spirit tour
The new stage version of Blithe Spirit, starring Jennifer Saunders, will return next year for a tour and a run in the West End.
British Comedy Guide, 20th September 2019Noël Coward apparently fell out with director David Lean over this film adaptation of his 1941 play, but it's hard to see why. It retains all the wit of the original, and Rex Harrison and Margaret Rutherford give great performances. Harrison plays a novelist whose dead first wife is accidentally summoned by a medium (Rutherford) in a seance.
Clive Morgan, The Telegraph, 30th January 2013