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Overview

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7.1/10   1,408 votes
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Director:
David Lean
Writers:
David Lean (adaptation) and
Ronald Neame (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
14 May 1945 (UK) more
Tagline:
One Wife Too Many
Plot:
Adapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Ruth, are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
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(14 articles)
Take a Cue in Life from Angela Landsbury
 (From Huffington Post. 18 June 2009, 12:18 PM, PDT)

Bret Michaels Injured at the Tony Awards
 (From PEOPLE.com. 7 June 2009, 8:30 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Fun from the 40's Brit flick more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Additional Details

Also Known As:
Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit' (UK) (complete title)
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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
UK:U (video rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | Spain:T

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Trivia:
Margaret Rutherford and Kay Hammond played Madame Arcati and Elvira, respectively, in the original West End production. Jacqueline Clarke played Edith in the original Broadway production. more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When Ruth leaves Charles and Elvira to go to bed, the camera pulls back into the drawing room, the door closes, and in the gloss paintwork the ghostly reflection of the crew can be seen. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
words on a Victorian sampler: "When we are young / We read and believe / The most fantastic things. / When we are older / We learn with regret / That these things cannot be"
Narrator: We are quite, quite wrong!
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Movie Connections:
Version of Blithe Spirit (1966) (TV) more
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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Fun from the 40's Brit flick, 3 March 2006
8/10
Author: johno-21 from United States

This is the second of three collaborations in film done in the mid 1940's between David Lean as a Director and playwright Noel Coward including This Happy Breed and Brief Encounter. This is an early film in Lean's directorial career who would of course go on to make such major films as Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai and A Passage to India. Coward produces and narrates this film as well. A great cast with Rex Harrison as a novelist, Constance Cummings as his second wife, Kay Hammond as his first wife and Margaret Rutherford as the medium Madame Arcadi. This is a fun fantasy/comedy/romantic story. I haven't seen this in years. I would give it an 8.0 of a scale of 10.

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