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Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond; TIME...
Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, TIME...
Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond; TIME...
...months Manhattan theatergoers were titillated by the stage play. The film's plot is the same: British Novelist Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison) lives stylishly in the English countryside with a stylish wife (Constance Cummings) and is badgered by the unladylike ghost of his first wife (Kay Hammond). Producer Coward and Director David Lean have done little more than photograph Author Coward's play. In focusing the main attention on the brightly brittle script, they have overlooked a rule which Hollywood rarely forgets: to hold their customers, cameras have to keep on the go. Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited...
...height of his success, Harris disparaged it by quoting Critic Percy Hammond's dictum that "the theater is the shell game of the arts." But self-disparagement is not his outstanding trait...