Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, was an English actress of stage, film and television.
Rutherford circa 1960
Margaret Rutherford's early home, her aunt Bessie's house in Wimbledon, 1895–1920
English Heritage Blue plaque at former home, Wimbledon
Blithe Spirit (1945 film)
Blithe Spirit is a 1945 British supernatural black comedy film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean, cinematographer Ronald Neame and associate producer Anthony Havelock-Allan, is based on Noël Coward's 1941 play of the same name, the title of which is derived from the line "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert" in the poem "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The song "Always", written by Irving Berlin, is an important plot element in "Blithe Spirit".
UK film quad poster