A rare kinescope of the séance scene from Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, originally telecast live on CBS in 1956. The cast includes Coward, Lauren Bacall, and Claudette Colbert:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
Archives for May 4, 2011
TT: Almanac
“A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can’t make old friends.”
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22