Blithe Spirit Archives

Blithe Spirit, a new comedy film starring Leslie Mann, Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Emilia Fox, Adil Ray, James Fleet, and Judi Dench, has been picked up by IFC Films Edward Hall (Downton Abbey) directs a script written by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard, and Piers Ashworth, which is based on the play of the[...]

In 1941, Noel Coward wrote Blithe Spirit, a play about a socialite author who hires a discredited, eccentric medium to conduct a séance in his home, hoping that the experience will help him through his writer's block The medium does indeed summon a spirit- the spirit of the author's deceased, and very possessive, former wife. Dan[...]