Perhaps a frivolous, longish farce like blithe spirit is out of fashion in these seriousminded days. Blithe spirit the 1945 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. When novelist charles condomine and his wife ruth decide to invite eccentric medium madame arcati to hold a seance, they little imagine the havoc they will wreak in their household and in their marriage. Blithe spirit original, play, comedy,farce, broadway opened in new york city nov 5, 1941 and played through jun 5, 1943. It is possible to regard the entire premise of blithe spirit as an elaborate hoax that charles created because he was dissatisfied with his.
View all articles on this page previous article next article. Blithe spirit united artists release noel cowards diverting comedy of a giddy wife who returns as an equally gay spook to haunt her husband, happily married to another woman, becomes a movie entertainment item guaranteed to amuse sophisticated. Publication date 1976 topics bbc radio drama, comedy drama language english. Blithe spirit revival, play, comedy,farce, broadway opened in new york city mar 15, 2009 and played through jul 19, 2009. Blithe spirit by noel coward, performed at wem, october 1948 88445263. Blithe spirit is a 1945 british fantasycomedy film directed by david lean. Blithe spirit by noel coward, corin redgrave, and kika. The haunting history of noel cowards blithe spirit. Listen to blithe spirit by noel coward, corin redgrave, kika markham, full cast, joanna lumley, thelma ruby for free with a 30 day free trial. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. Blithe spirit overview the best broadway source for blithe spirit tickets and blithe spirit information, photos and videos. Too bad, since the film won an oscar in 1946 for its dazzling special effects elvira glows in green. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, elvira, after the seance.
The noel cowarddavid lean combination which turned out such dramas as brief encounter and this happy breed sets its sights on the viewers funny bone with blithe spirit. As a play blithe spirit ran in londons west end for over 3000 performances and then came to ny and ran even. Guthries blithe spirit lags when it should soar twin. Blithe spirit soundtrack details home explore movies explore composers resource directory forums contact us about us search on. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of.
Perhaps a pixilated production of noel cowards classic comedy simply never. Bird thou never wert in the poem to a skylark by percy bysshe shelley. Blow the man down is a coenlike black comedy you can. The play concerns the socialite and novelist charles condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, madame arcati, to his house to conduct a seance, hoping to gather material for his next book. Media in category blithe spirit play the following 23 files are in this category, out of 23 total.