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Blithe Spirit
Directed by
David Lean
Not Rated
1945
1h 36m
Comedy
,
Fantasy
7.0
78%
75%
7.0
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A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
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Cast of Blithe Spirit
Rex Harrison
Charles Condomine
Constance Cummings
Ruth Condomine
Kay Hammond
Elvira Condomine
Margaret Rutherford
Madame Arcati
Hugh Wakefield
Dr. George Bradman
Joyce Carey
Violet Bradman
Jacqueline Clarke
Edith
Marie Ault
Cook (uncredited)
Johnnie Schofield
R.A.C. Man Directing Traffic (uncredited)
Noël Coward
Narrator (uncredited) / Producer / Theatre Play
David Lean
Director / Screenplay
Ronald Neame
Screenplay / Director Of Photography
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenplay
Arthur Taksen
Set Decoration
C.P. Norman
Art Direction
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Artist
Vivienne Walker
Hairdresser
Hilda Collins
Wardrobe Supervisor
Rahvis
Costume Designer
George Pollock
Assistant Director
Blithe Spirit Ratings & Reviews
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
From her first appearance, Rutherford injects a sense of anarchy into the staid drawing-room world of the Condomines like a grey-haired girl scout full of enthusiasms and up for just about anything.
Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
Rachel Wagner
Funny with unique visual effects
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
May be a trifle, but it's a glorious trifle, and features one of the great comedic roles in English theatre - the medium Madame Arcati, here memorably embodied by a deliciously batty Margaret Rutherford.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...almost too breezy.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
The supernatural mnage of wartime England, staged by David Lean as an elegant fissure between the clipped precision of aristocratic manners and the great unknown beyond the drawing-room
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
... a lightweight comedy built on witty remarks and upper-class smugness (which Rex Harrison so perfectly embodies), but comedy is not Lean's strong suit.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Blithe Spirit is beloved by so many people that I feel like a curmudgeon handing it a mixed review. But when it comes to supernatural comedies starring Rex Harrison, I much prefer Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
While Coward's witty dialogue and pungent take on the mores of the British upper crust can't help but elicit some smiles, as a whole Blithe Spirit feels like a film that is just going through the motions.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
As the medium Madame Arcatti, Margareth Rutherford stole every scene in David Lean's screen adaptation of Nowel Coward's witty play.
Variety
Variety Staff
Inasmuch as this is largely a photographed copy of the stage play [by Noel Coward], the camerawork is outstandingly good and helps to put across the credibility of the ghost story more effectively than the flesh and blood performance does.
TV Guide
A quicksilver cocktail.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Worth it just for Margaret Rutherford as a sort of girls' school gamesmistres-style psychic!
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
The last word in witty repartee of the most civilized kind - the sort of thing Noel Coward was known for, and nobody did better.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Passably good, but it should have been better, what with Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, and Margaret Rutherford reading the Noel Coward lines.
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