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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. The scheme backfires ...
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!
The best-known plays of Coward's middle period, the late 1930s and the 1940s, Present Laughter, This Happy Breed and Blithe Spirit are more traditional in construction and less unconventional in content. Coward toured them throughout Britain during the Second World War, and the first and third of them are frequently revived in Britain and the US.
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 ...
This is the second feature film adaptation of Coward's play after the 1945 version directed by David Lean. Blithe Spirit had its world premiere at the 2020 Mill Valley Film Festival, and was released in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2021. The film received generally negative reviews from critics.
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 ...
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]
Blithe Spirit may refer to: Blithe Spirit (play) , a 1941 comic play written by Noël Coward Blithe Spirit (1945 film) , a British comedy film based on the play