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Acting honors go to Margaret Rutherford as Mme Arcati, a trance medium who makes you believe she’s on the level. There is nothing ethereal about this 200-pounder. Her dynamic personality has all ...

Believing that Hammond wants to ruin his marriage, Harrison enlists the services of local medium Madame Arcati (Margaret Rutherford) to exorcise Hammond's spirit.

At another, he has but to hear the voice of medium Madame Arcatti’s (Margaret Rutherford) spirit guide (a little girl) to note that the dead child ought to have had her adenoids removed.

Rex Harrison was perfect casting when David Lean, the playwright's close friend and co-director ("In Which We Serve"), filmed it in 1945 with Margaret Rutherford as Madame Arcati, a colorful and ...

The enduring popularity of "Blithe Spirit" owes as much to its archly whimsical premise as to the adept way that author Noel Coward dispatches his bon mots.

In a performance channeling Katharine Hepburn, Maggie Smith, and Margaret Rutherford (who originated the role), Harrington's performance is a typhoon of physical and vocal affectations—and ...

Noel Coward’s 1941 play, already filmed in 1945 by David Lean, and starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Rutherford, is disinterred once again. But Coward’s once spry wit now feels arthritic; his ...

It was Margaret Rutherford, who died at age 80 in 1972, who originated the role of Madame Arcati and also portrayed her in the 1945 film version with Rex Harrison as frazzled Charles.