Blithe Spirit (1945)

Directors

David Lean

Cast

Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Carey, Hugh Wakefield

The story

Seeking background material for an occult-based novel he is working on, writer Charles Condomine invites eccentric medium Madame Arcati to his home in Lympne, Kent, to conduct a séance. As Charles, his wife Ruth and their guests, George and Violet Bradman, barely restrain themselves from laughing, Madame Arcati performs peculiar rituals and finally goes into a trance. Charles then hears the voice of his dead first wife, Elvira.

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