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- Release Date: 1956
- Runtime: N/A
- Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
- Starring: Lauren Bacall, Claudette Colbert, Noel Coward, Brenda Forbes ... see all
- Director: Frederick De Cordova, Noel Coward
- Plot: The version of Blithe Spirit discussed in this article is actually a 1956 live performance made for television, preserved on kinescope, not a true motion picture. The production was directed... Read more
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RTE, Ireland
This is a thoroughly entertaining production of one of Coward's finest moments:....Sinead Murphy plays Edith, the twinkle-toed servant, with an expert gormlessness that provides some of the best running jokes..... ... Full Review
News
Sullivan Jr. wins a Norton
projo.com –
2009-05-13
Trinity Rep's Fred Sullivan Jr. has picked up an Elliot Norton Award for his work in last year's production of Blithe Spirit and for a performance in Boston of As You Like It. ... Full Article
BROADWAY
nypost.com –
2009-04-17
"BLITHE SPIRIT": **½ Angela Lansbury and Jayne Atkinson prevent director Michael Blakemore from completely smothering Noel Coward's comedy. Shubert Theatre, 225 W. 44th St.; 212-239-6200. ... Full Article
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY IN SPIRIT OF FOOLING
nypost.com –
2009-04-01
APRIL Fools' Day. The date America should really hold its elections. BEING April Fools' Day, I investigated the Shubert, where "Blithe Spirit" blithely sails along with Angela Lansbury playing a psychic, and where, seemingly, on their own, tables knock, windows... ... Full Article
LANSBURY SLAMS MANCHURIAN REMAKE
pr-inside.com –
2009-03-27
ANGELA LANSBURY has slammed DENZEL WASHINGTON's THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE remake, insisting it was destined to flop. Lansbury was Oscar-nominated for her role as the domineering mother of a brainwashed soldier in the John Frankenheimer film, and she admits she was... ... Full Article
NEW YORK - "We're merely mammals," Cole Porter observed in the lyrics of Let's Misbehave . In God of Carnage ( * * * ½ out of four), Yasmina Reza endorses a similarly egalitarian view of man's place in the... ... Full Article
Christine Ebersole stars in Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," now playing at Broadway's Shubert Theatre in New York. (ROBERT J. SAFERSTEIN)
courant.com –
2009-03-17
NEW YORK - Hail to thee, "Blithe Spirit." The revival of Noël Coward's 1941 ghost story opened Sunday in a transcendent revival at the Shubert Theatre. ... Full Article