Blithe Spirit

A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.

Cast

Rex Harrison

as Charles Condomine

Constance Cummings

as Ruth Condomine

Kay Hammond

as Elvira Condomine

Margaret Rutherford

as Madame Arcati

Hugh Wakefield

as Dr. George Bradman

Joyce Carey

as Violet Bradman

Jacqueline Clarke

as Edith

Marie Ault

as Cook (uncredited)

Johnnie Schofield

as R.A.C. Man Directing Traffic (uncredited)

Noël Coward

as Narrator (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

You can't really go wrong with David Lean adapting Noël Coward in a film about poor old Rex Harrison ("Charles") and three on-form women: two of whom he married - Constance Cummings ("Ruth)" and Kay Hammond ("Elvira") and the other is the source of most of his woes - spiritual medium Margaret Ruther...

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