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Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts". [1] The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance , hoping to gather material for his next book.
Blithe Spirit is a 1945 British supernatural black comedy film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean, cinematographer Ronald Neame and associate producer Anthony Havelock-Allan , is based on Noël Coward 's 1941 play of the same name , the title of which is derived from the line "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
A Choice of Coward is a British television anthology series. Noël Coward served as host, introducing productions of his plays, Blithe Spirit, [1] Design for Living, The Vortex, and Present Laughter. [2] The series was part of the Itelevision play of the Week anthology series that ran from 1955 to 1967. [3] [4]
Penning a good, short, pithy screenplay is no easy feat, even when working from solidly proven source material — and one need look no further than “Blithe Spirit,” a tin-eared, lumpen-footed ...
High Spirits is a musical with a book, lyrics, and music by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray, based on the play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward, about a man coping with the ghost of his dead wife. Martin and Gray adhered closely to Coward's original text, while expanding the medium's character to the star role, initially calling the show Faster Than ...
Blithe Spirit" Ford Star Jubilee episode: Episode no. Season 1 Episode 5: Directed by: Noël Coward Frederick De Cordova: Written by: Noël Coward: Based on: Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward: Original air date: 14 January 1956 () Guest appearances; Lauren Bacall as Elvira Condomine; Claudette Colbert as Ruth Condomine; Noël Coward as Charles ...
Shortly after his play Blithe Spirit opened in the West End in July 1941, Noël Coward was approached by Anthony Havelock-Allan, who was working with the production company Two Cities Films. Its founder, Filippo Del Giudice, was interested in making a propaganda film and wanted someone well-known to write the screenplay.
The play foreshadows Coward's treatment of the theme of ghosts in his 1940 play, Blithe Spirit. The middle scenes of Post-Mortem portray John as a ghost whom everyone can see, but about whose nature the other characters are apparently not greatly concerned. In the later play, there are two ghosts, which some characters can see and others cannot ...