From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Wednesday night TCM is showing "Blithe Spirit", a fantasy ghost story from a   
   play by Noël Coward.  He has a reputation, I'm told, of being witty and   
   clever, but even he can't do much with the scene of a character talking to   
   someone nobody else can see.     
   If only Hollywood had taken the hint and given it up trying back in 1945!    
   (Nowadays the cellphone and bluetooth earpiece has made us used to people   
   talking to someone who isn't there.)  As it was a stage play previously, I'm   
   guessing the ghost driving    
   the car was added by director David "Lawrence of Arabia" Lean, who does less   
   with it than "Topper" did in '38.   
      
   On the plus side, when we do see the ghost, she is various shades of green,   
   almost as if they swapped the Technicolor red and green elements, although it   
   was probably done with makeup and a good eye.  I find Rex Harrison and   
   Margaret Rutherford watchable    
   in just about anything.   
      
   They say you can always find something new when you come back to a classic.    
   This'll be my second time watching it.  We'll see.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
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