Blithe Spirit

Charles Condomine, a successful writer, wants to learn more about spiritualism for his new screenplay. He invites an eccentric female medium, Madame Arcati, to hold a seance at his house.

At the seance, Madame Arcati accidentally summons the ghost of Charles ' first wife, Elvira, who died seven years ago. The medium leaves, unaware of the consequences of his actions. Only Charles can see and hear Elvira, and his second wife, Ruth, does not believe that the ghost exists, until she paints a mustache and horns on her portrait with lipstick.

Elvira is attractively decadent, unconventional, and moody, in contrast to the more reserved Ruth, the daughter of the film director for whom Charles is writing the screenplay. The ghostly Elvira makes constant and increasingly desperate attempts to destroy Charles ' current marriage. Charles also tricks Elvira into dictating an interesting script to him, since he writes quite poorly.

Soon, the ghostly ex-wife realizes that Charles will get rid of her as soon as the script is finished. Hoping to kill him so that she can take him away from her second wife forever, she breaks the brakes on the family car. But Ruth gets behind the wheel, who goes after the medium to banish Elvira.

After Ruth's car falls off a cliff without brakes, Charles breaks down and tries to attack Elvira, for which he ends up in a madhouse. Elvira frees him to help her escape back to the afterlife. Madame Arcati performs a ritual and tries to banish Elvira, but instead returns to our world the ghost of first Ruth, and then her beloved who died in the war. The ghosts of Charles ' wives quickly find a common language and leave, leaving him alone.

The film is still being shot based on Charles ' script, but immediately after the shooting process is completed, reporters begin to accuse him of plagiarism. Rushing out of the studio, he sees Ruth driving a car and Elvira in the next seat. Ruth sells it and drives off into the sunset with Elvira.