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===Film=== ''Blithe Spirit'' has twice been adapted for the cinema. A [[Blithe Spirit (1945 film)|1945 film]] was directed by [[David Lean]], and starred two of the principals from the original stage production reprising their roles: [[Kay Hammond]] as Elvira and [[Margaret Rutherford]] as Madame Arcati. [[Constance Cummings]] played Ruth, and [[Rex Harrison]] Charles.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120712001107/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a573b6a "Blithe Spirit"], British Film Institute. Retrieved 19 March 2014</ref> Coward was out of the country during the filming and was therefore obliged to leave the direction to Lean. The author was less than impressed with the result. He found Lean's direction static and said that the film "wasn't entirely bad but it was a great deal less good than it should have been".<ref>Day, p. 88</ref> A [[Blithe Spirit (2020 film)|2020 film]] adaptation was directed by [[Edward Hall (director)|Edward Hall]], with [[Dan Stevens]] as Charles, [[Isla Fisher]] as Ruth, [[Leslie Mann]] as Elvira and [[Judi Dench]] as Madame Arcati. In ''[[The Guardian]]'' [[Peter Bradshaw]] gave the film one star out of a possible five: "a festival of mugging and farcical overacting".<ref>Bradshaw, Peter. [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/13/blithe-spirit-review-judi-dench-isla-fisher-noel-coward "Blithe Spirit review β Judi Dench presides over a deathly farce"], ''The Guardian'', 13 January 2021</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' also published an unenthusiastic review: "more screw-loose than screwball ... a ludicrous adaptation of NoΓ«l Coward's 1941 stage play, reimagines its source material as little more than a slip-and-fall farce".<ref>Catsoulis, Jeanette. [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/movies/blithe-spirit-review.html "Blithe Spirit' Review: Dead, but Not Loving It"], ''The New York Times'', 18 February 2021</ref>
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