| FILM : Blithe Spirit | | page 1/0 . . . 0 filming location stills : 4 now location shots NOTE: To see the stills and now shots for this film you must be an associate research assistant. Click here to request ARA status. | | FILM / MOVIE TITLE | DATE | FILM STAR(S) WHO APPEAR IN THE LOCATION SCENES | FILM / MOVIE LOCATIONS / SCENES | | Blithe Spirit | 1945 | Rex Harrison,Constance Cummings, Margaret Rutherford, Kay Hammond, Hugh Wakefield, Joyce Carey, Jacqueline Clarke. | Ashford? Tunbridge? Kent | Director : David Lean Production Company : Two Cities.
Adapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Constance, are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost. Interesting change in social habits. Rex Harrison, at lunch, in his upper middle class family; they always dressed for dinner; has a large, screw-top, bottle of beer on the table, something that now would be uncommon. He, Rex, upon the death of his wife sports two black armbands, generally one, or more likely a diamond, or lozenge shaped patch was worn on the left arm, but two I've never seen.
Greg says: "Possibly the setting of this film is Goldenhurst Farm in Kent, TN25 7BY, because it was the home of Noel Coward.
Noel Coward: A Biography By Philip Hoare, Page 354: "Clearly the setting is Goldenhurst, or its symbolic equivalent; a signpost announces 'Ashford 8 miles', and the telephone has an Ashford number."
However, I don't think it was filmed in Kent, because... according to IMDb it was filmed in Denham, Buckinghamshire: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038363/locations. Confirmed by pictures by002n, by002an, by002bn and by002cn below. | | This movie is available on a swap/exchange/barter basis - see our wants/swaps information page. It is a VHS PAL video copy. If you would like to swap/barter or exchange one of your tapes, videos or DVDs for this copy then look at the movies/films listed by geographical area pages - our wants are shown in black - to find out which films I require and for which I will exchange one of my videos or DVDs.
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