BLITHE SPIRIT
£260.00
Original 10 inch x 8 inch Portrait of REX HARRISON in the 1945 David Lean Comedy Fantasy BLITHE SPIRIT, based on the play by Noël Coward.
A harmless séance at the home of novelist Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth summons up the ghost of Charles’ glamorous first wife Elvira.
Photo by Wilfrid Newton with his stamp on the reverse. Born in London in 1909 Newton entered the film industry as assistant in the Stills Department of the Gaumont Company in 1927. He worked there for nine years and then went to Ealing Studios, where he built and managed the Stills Department until 1942. He joined Two Cities at Denham and then specialist photographer to the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. His film credits include The 39 Steps, Jew Suss, Next of Kin, Henry V, Caesar and Cleopatra and Hamlet
The portrait is in very good condition with minor surface marks.
Availability: 1 in stock
